David Mitchell Quotes

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

A wise man travels to discover himself.

There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

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.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

It's in every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

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.

A lot of my songs are just posing questions, because I'm on a journey to find the answers myself.

The journey is the reward

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.

Meditation is a good starting point, or even a little bit of contemplative reflection, asking questions like: Who am I without my name or form? What is my purpose if there is one? What do I want out of my life? What am I grateful for? Just a little bit of reflection like that starts you on the journey.