Garth Stein Quotes

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?

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.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

I think and that is all that I am.

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

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

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.

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.