Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

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

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

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

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

I discovered myself!

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

The only journey is the one within.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

My motto is to help people love themselves sooner. I can't teach them how to do that. They have to figure that out on their own - that's their journey.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

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

'Aura' is a song where you're looking at yourself in the mirror, and I was personally impacted when I recorded it. I identified with it.