Shirley MacLaine Quotes

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

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

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

I discovered myself!

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I hit a brick wall one day, and I spent a lot of time by myself learning about me and who I am and what I want and don't want.

I'm still learning new things about myself every day.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

We read books to find out who we are.

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.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.