Saint Augustine Quotes

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

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

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

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

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

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'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

Facts make you face stuff about yourself you'd rather not see.

I was quite a different child, I felt isolated. In time, that level of being with yourself crystallises who you are, and you can see what other people are without being blinded by what they want from you.