Ann Bancroft Quotes

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

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

You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity... to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

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

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

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

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.