Ben Schnetzer Quotes

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

People who keep journals have life twice

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

I've never really looked back.

If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you're isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with all the inherent truths and learning things about yourself and the people that are around you.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.

When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.

Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas and the same experiences.

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

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.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.