Junot Diaz Quotes

Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.

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

The only journey is the one within.

I want people to find their inner depth.

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

Someone who seeks the Way doesn't look beyond himself.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.

Our real journey in life is interior.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great 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.

Think... of the world you carry within you.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

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

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

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.

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.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.