Yann Martel Quotes

You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.

At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I give full attention to the things I wish hadn’t occurred. Recognizing these mistakes honestly but without self-recrimination, I try to rejoice in the innate wisdom that allows me to see so bravely, and I feel compassion for how I so frequently messed up. Then I can go forward. The future is wide open, and what I do with it is up to me.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

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

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.