Jewel Quotes

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

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.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I discovered myself!

Know thyself.

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

My personality doesn't interest me.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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.

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

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.