Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

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

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

Meditation is a good starting point, or even a little bit of contemplative reflection, asking questions like: Who am I without my name or form? What is my purpose if there is one? What do I want out of my life? What am I grateful for? Just a little bit of reflection like that starts you on the journey.

We read books to find out who we are.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.

People have asked me about playing outsiders. I don't consider myself an outsider. Maybe that's why I'm interested in that. I'm not really sure.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.