Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.

I think, over the course of one's lifetime, there are always certain core elements that are intriguing to you, and you take different looks as you get older, but it's something you keep coming back to. I've always been interested in the relationship between vulnerability and control. That's something that's a big thing for people, whoever they are, no matter how old you are. I think at different times, you're more aware than others.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.

When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

James Remar is a student of life.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.