Ernst Junger Quotes

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

Learn what you are and be such.

Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

Human improvement is from within outward.

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

As a human being, I'm work in process.

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

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

I shouldn't be right for every role, because I'm not.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

If you don't feel fabulous, you have deviated from the path of who-you-really-are.

Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.

If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.