Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

I discovered myself!

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.