Al Miller > Al Miller's Quotes

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
― George Eliot

“The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.”
― Floriano Martins

“A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.”
― Carl Sandburg

“There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Homer & Langley