Arthur Helps Quotes

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

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.

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

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

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

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

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.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

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.

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

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

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

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

I discovered myself!