Danielle de Niese Quotes

I'd be lying to you if I said I had not done some soul searching.

We gotta be willing to seek direction ... we've gotta be willing to look within.

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

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

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

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 never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

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

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

I think it's important to talk to your inner thing. The purpose is to go over the decisions that will affect my life and others. I pray that I don't make my decisions based on ego.

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

Life is not just about profit and loss. One should follow one's conscience and listen to the voice of one's soul.

Most people appear to live an unexamined life, cruising through the years without much reflection about what it means, and/or taking what life hands them and believing it's all predestined.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.