Jodi Picoult Quotes

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

It's in every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I grew up in a life where the answer was always there, I guess. But now I'm out on my own and still looking for the answer. Nothing is solved for me.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.