T. S. Eliot Quotes

What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie.

I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

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

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.

Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn't very present prior to that.

I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?

You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.

It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?

If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.