Jillian Hervey Quotes

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

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.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

While I don't necessarily believe the cliche that 'everything happens for a reason,' I do believe that every encounter, every situation, and every challenge I've experienced has shaped me into the woman I am today. And I am proud to say that I have never backed down from life's challenges.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

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.