Jean Craighead George Quotes

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

We are all alike, on the inside.

It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.

What I've learned is that at the end of the day, we are all human. We all have that in common.

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

The truth is we're all part of one big content universe.

Before you can come to know your purpose, you must come to know yourself.

It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.

Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

When you get to know your self, you get to know everyone and everything on the planet.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

Every human heart is human.

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?