Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

I started digging into parts of myself that I probably ignore and don't really get to express because Common is an artist that is conscious and is aware and is trying to put a positive energy to the world.

You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I'm still on that journey, to find that core.

Before I wasn't sure what I wanted to say, but now, I have had so many different experiences that they have given me what I want to get across in my music.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.