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Quotes About Soul-searching

En el fondo, ¿qué busco? No sé.
~ Sartre Jean Paul
Maybe he saw that my mystery was, at bottom, nothing but misery.
~ Saul Bellow
Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
What was I like, really?
~ Elena Ferrante
A person who could listen to his inner heart call and see through his soul can only find with own mind a big hole in the public poll.
~ Anuj Somany
The classification of the mind thinking can be done into a good and a bad, but not an imagination as it is always from the feeling of a soul-searching heart.
~ Anuj Somany
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.
~ Fritz Sauckel
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
~ Rumi
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig.
~ Marcus Aurelius
What am I doing with my soul? Interrogate yourself, to find out what inhabits your so-called mind and what kind of soul you have now. A child's soul, an adolescent's, a woman's? A tyrant's soul? The soul of a predator—or its prey?
~ Marcus Aurelius
At times like this, I'm thankful I don't feel love.
~ Julie Anne Peters
You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
~ Anne Lamott
Why was I here? What now? Who did I know? Not even myself.
~ John Fante
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
~ John Fowles
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
~ Eliot Spitzer
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
~ Arthur Miller
The first study for a man who wants to be a poet is the knowledge of himself, entire. He searches his soul, he inspects it, he tests it, he learns it. As soon as he knows it, he cultivates it.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
If you have been brought low through personal defeat; if there is a call in your soul to a deeper purifying, to a renewed consecration; if there is the challenge of some new task for which you feel ill-equipped—then it is time to inquire of God whether He would not have you separate yourself unto Him in fasting.
~ Arthur Wallis
That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.
~ Terri Clark
I need to get as deep as I can into my own heart to really make people connect and react to the music as passionate as possible.
~ Kyle