Haruki Murakami Quotes

You traveled the world... Now you must journey inwards... to what you really fear... it's inside you.

Our real journey in life is interior.

Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

There's a lot of fear connected with the inner journey because it penetrates our illusions. Taking the inner journey will lead you into some very shadowy places. You're going to learn things about yourself that you'll wish you didn't know. There are monsters in there-monsters you can't control-but trying to keep them hidden will only give them greater power.

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

I started digging into parts of myself that I probably ignore and don't really get to express because Common is an artist that is conscious and is aware and is trying to put a positive energy to the world.

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

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

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

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

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

True navigation begins in the human heart. It's the most important map of all.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

The only journey is the one within.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.