Fred Rogers Quotes

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

The only journey is the one within.

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

It's not easy to know who you are and it's very painful and takes a lot of time and that is why a lot of people don't want to put in the effort.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

It took me a while to find myself.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.