Christopher Reeve Quotes

There is more inside you than you dare think.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.

I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.

The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die — illusions, gushes of personality. Only you can sort yourself out. Yourself may not be all you need, but it’s all you’ve got.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

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?

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

I like to spread myself out. Since I was a kid, I always recognized some void.

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

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.