M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

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

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

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

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

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

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

The only journey is the one within.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

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

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.