Quotes About Soul-searching

Music has always taken me to my 'thinking place' - the one place that makes me dwell on the meaning of things and ponder why things are the way they are.

You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan.

Her growing certainty that she was withholding some essential part of herself had filled her with quiet desperation.

He needed to remember what he was really made of and return to his true nature. In

You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and draws you back. . . . Truly, I prepare you for solitude. —C.G. Jung , The Red Book

Which of my feelings are real? Which of the mes is me?

I want to have an 'Eat, Pray, Love' experience where I drop off the face of the planet and move to Greece.

I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.

I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.

Like any army moving from war to peace, this Army was entering a period in which it would search high and low for its soul. Only the vanquished truly learn anything from the last war, according to an ancient maxim, and the issue now confronting America was whether the defeated nation and the nation's vanquished Army would learn anything from Vietnam.

For many people, this would be the point where one might do some soul-searching introspection, some painful confronting of truths as a means of personal growth. Being a scientist, I decided to avoid this by Studying the Subject. Donning my lab coat and postponing a microscope nearby ,I started making phone calls.

We all come back to God in these days of soul-sifting, said Gertrude to John Meredith. There have been many days in the past when I didn't believe in God—not as God—only as the impersonal Great First Cause of the scientists. I believe in Him now—I have to—there's nothing else to fall back on but God—humbly, starkly, unconditionally.

Where is my conscience, Anne? I want to know. Is it in my stomach?

if I wasn't ME who'd I be?

I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.

You must walk alone to find your soul.

I keep thinking that if I could just unzip my skin, step out of this body, then I would see who I really am.

i lean into the mirror. eyes after eyes after eyes stare back at me. am i in there somewhere?

She let herself stray past the stage of sleep and even past the stage of remembering, and she wanders into the stage of soul-searching. Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things, the smell and music of thought itself.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

We still did not answer the questions that are important to us

What Keats said: No such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in.

Qué me sucede?» se pregunta, mientras un suspiro se escapa de lo más profundo de su corazón.

Going away is not always so simple—when one takes oneself along.