Marcel Proust Quotes

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.

As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

I want to feel that every trip I make has enhanced me as a person.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

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

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

You want to be a citizen of the world, and then life happens, and you forget to be a citizen of the world; you're a citizen of your own existence.

Every person has his or her own journey.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.