William Butler Yeats Quotes

Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

when asked, most folks will gladly tell us about ourselves, who we are, what we're feeling, and where we should be heading. And if we don't honor ourselves by listening to our lives, we'll believe them.

I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

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.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

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.

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.