Juan Ramon Jimenez Quotes

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

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.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

I didn't want to become like so many of the young people I've worked with who have money, fame, and success but don't know who they are as people.

Can I do an impression of me? I don't think I can. It would be the most self-confronting thing you could ever do.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not been a result we can all agree on.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.

But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.

What have I to forgive and whom?

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.