T. S. Eliot Quotes

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

All confessions are Odysseys.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

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.

Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

We read books to find out who we are.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.

To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.