Jacky Ickx Quotes

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls. But eventually we learn, and our journey continues in another direction.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.

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

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.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

I did find my direction at an early age.