Lykke Li Quotes

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

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.

We read books to find out who we are.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

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.

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

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.

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

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

A wise man travels to discover himself.

I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

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.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.