Thomas Merton Quotes

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

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

Figure out who you are.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

I'm a role player, a journeyman. I know who I am.

I don't feel like there has ever really been anyone like me, and I'm starting to realize that. Not in a cocky way, but in a very humbling way.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

I'm grounded in who I am.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

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.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.