Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

The only journey is the one within.

The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

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.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

What we are, the experiences we've had, come to the surface.

I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.

I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?

Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)

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

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.