John Cusack Quotes

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

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

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

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

The problem is that even as you reveal the mysteries in your past, you are accumulating them in the present; complete honesty is the stuff of post-mortem, not autobiography.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

All of us have our own journeys.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

It's taken me a long time to own the early part of my life.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

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

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.

As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is emerging-one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain within, where they aim to conquer their own hearts. Written in the tradition of a great adventure narrative, Aya Awakenings is a timely story for a new emerging era.