Daniel Keyes Quotes

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.

I think of my life as a journey, and I'm still on it.

That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.

Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along the path of enlightenment towards your destiny. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly vital in your life.

When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

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.

When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that's one reason you should try different relationships. I've had good and bad ones, but I took away things from them that helped me become who I am.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

I did find my direction at an early age.