John Eldredge Quotes

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

In some ways Holy Smoke is about people's journey to the heart.

We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

I had a moment a few years ago where I wasn't sure if I was acting for myself or because people expected it of me. A bit of a crisis of faith, I suppose. I did some soul-searching, took a break and decided I was going to live my life only for me.

Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.