Virginia Woolf Quotes

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.

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 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.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

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.

In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

I am always writing to myself.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.