Garth Stein Quotes

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

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.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

Access to your true essence will give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.