Eugene Delacroix Quotes

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

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

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

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.

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

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

I love to watch human beings figuring out their limitations.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.

Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.