Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Half my life is an act of revision.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

The only journey is the one within.

I think I surprise myself.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

I'm still learning new things about myself every day.

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

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.

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.

I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.