Harvey Cox Quotes

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

I saw that everything really was written there before me, and that the doors had only been closed before because I hadn't realized that I was the one person in the world with the authority to open them.

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.

Mary Allen has compiled a wealth of tools and resources - both inner and outer - to support you in consciously directing your untapped potential and creating a life that you love.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. It's only when necessity faces us that we rise to the occasion and actually do the things that hitherto have seemed impossible.

Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.

I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.

Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.

suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.

The Secret is within you.

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

The truth comes out... I think when you fight you find out who you are

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

Tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, Just be true to who you are

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

They're not prosthetics. They're my bones. They come out when I’m inspired. They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.