Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

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

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

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.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

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.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

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 think I'm pretty self-aware.

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

I listen to myself, listen to my heart.

We're not always the most insightful about ourselves.

There's only one person who knows me - and that's me.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.