Julian Fellowes Quotes

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

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

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

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.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

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.

One of my problems is to find the self.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I discovered myself!

The only journey is the one within.

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

'Aura' is a song where you're looking at yourself in the mirror, and I was personally impacted when I recorded it. I identified with it.

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.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.