Robin McKinley Quotes

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

The only journey is the one within.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

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

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

I think and that is all that I am.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

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