Franz Kafka Quotes

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.

As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.

You're always learning about yourself, if you're honest with yourself. It's very tough to be honest with yourself. We all are dishonest with ourselves, a lot of the time. We don't want to deal with something, so we compartmentalize it.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.