Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

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.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

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

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

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

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

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.'

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.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

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.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

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.

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

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

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.

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

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.