John Eldredge Quotes

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.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

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.

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

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

I'm in search of myself - have you seen me anywhere?

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.

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!

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?

We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.

The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.