Quotes About Soul-searching

The only journey is the journey within.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

She had seen early in life that there was none in this world to audit one's soul. A man could deform himself into the most miserable of creatures, and no holy hand would descend from the clouds and cry Halt. And if there was no auditor, then one must audit one's own soul, tenaciously and without mercy.

Jamie, have you ever done something for yourself alone—not with any thought of anyone else?

You're always trying to make each record more autobiographical than the last one.

You can't lie to your soul.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls." But he also said this: "Who looks inside, awakes.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

I have become an enigma to myself. So said Saint Augustine. And herein lies my sickness.

Eu sou trezentos, sou trezentos-e-cinquenta, Mas um dia afinal me encontrarei comigo...

Utter ruin provokes soul-searching in even the least reflective of men.

For what shall we do when we wake one day to find we have lost touch with our heart and with it the very refuge where God's presence resides?

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

Who am I? This or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, And before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling? . . . Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am Thine!2 Bonhoeffer's question "Who am I?

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

Are you the devil?" Yoth Begail whispered. "Am I the devil?

Everyone is sick with his existence.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I distrust the perpetually busy, always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.

the true solitary does not seek himself, but loses himself.

Searching outside oneself for what can only be found within can lead to a life lived in the wrong direction and sacrifices made for the wrong reasons. People can wind up alienated from themselves even if they achieve lofty goals set by others.

We used to go to the sea to discover the world: now we go to the sea to discover ourselves.