Barbra Streisand Quotes

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

I want people to find their inner depth.

Everybody needs to find their own path and the best way for themselves to connect to this world.

There are a lot of layers to me.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.