Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

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.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I hit a brick wall one day, and I spent a lot of time by myself learning about me and who I am and what I want and don't want.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

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

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

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.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

I discovered myself!

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

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

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.