Sarah Dessen Quotes

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

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

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

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

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.

Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.

Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent. Go down to your deep old heart, and lose sight of yourself. And lose sight of me, the me whom you turbulently loved. Let us lose sight of ourselves, and break the mirrors. For the fierce curve of our lives is moving again to the depths out of sight, in the deep living heart.

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.

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

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

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.

The only way out is in.

The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.