Introspection Quotes
207 quotes
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
"When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points."
"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."
"On a scale of 1 to extroverted, I’m a 3.14159. So is pi. I network like “the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.” Thanks, Wikipedia!"
"The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most."
"I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book."
"What is reading but silent conversation."
"We no longer know each other. Hell, I barely know myself these days. I brush my teeth and look in the mirror and think, “Who is this guy taking care of my oral hygiene?"
"The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour."
"If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves."
"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."
"The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?"
"that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks"
"By thinking of things you could understand them."
"As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99)."
"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."
"I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere."
"Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness"
"The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know."
"Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!"
"Find the light within you through meditation and introspection, and you will illuminate your life from within."
Amy Leigh Mercree, The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart
"But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?"
"True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant."
"When you are in action it is very difficult to get a bird’s eye view of your own performance! Find some time to introspect."
"Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man."
"Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to."
"If you lack open communication and honesty in your life – It’s time to look within. Are you someone who handles heavy, emotional, or tough information well or do you often get excessively agitated, upset, or depressed? My rule of thumb is that no topic ‘should’ ever be off limits with a loved one. That is the goal to work towards. The point being, if you’re easy to talk to, people will talk to you! If you’re not, then they won’t!"
"Introspection and observation of others are vital for the ongoing good health of our own psyche; watch, learn and tweak as required."
Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
"Sometimes being overwhelmed by emotions can leave you speechless but even then it is important to identify the correct emotion."
"Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood."
Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
"Everyone in this world is Abhimanyu, the difference being that most of us are trapped in a labyrinth of our own creation. It takes a lifetime for people to realise that the way out lies in their own hands. All it requires is a little introspection."
"In life, we must choose to quiet ourselves and go through a period of reflection, an instance in time for evaluating our strengths vs. our weaknesses, an interval in time for recognizing the real from deceit, a moment in time for making necessary life adjustments for personal welfare. It's through such, we begin to know ourselves."
"We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being."
"The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of those heavenly bodies scientists tell us of."
"Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting."
"Talking with Elaine like that, with no judgment from her or anything, seemed to bring my feelings more to the surface so I could look at them. I love times like that; you don't get many of them.(Walker, in STOTAN!)"
"A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind."
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."
"Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves."
"…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself."
"Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia."
"An introspective person seeks to attain a pure state of consciousness by merging finitude in infinity and by expressing the rapture of the soul through the contemplation and adoration of beauty. In this brief interlude of time, I surrender to becoming a cog in the roadway, an insentient time traveler, a ward of eternity, a day-tripper, a nighttime dream weaver, a blip in the cosmos, a freebase glob of energy, an imaginable disk of bundled vitality that wants for nothing."
"To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself."
"When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374) [.]"
"We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists."
"Sometimes the reason God doesn't show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it."
"To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude."
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
"Every day I wake up and ask myself, ‘How can I accept myself and others more fully?"
"Learn to observe your emotions without needing to act or distract yourself from them. Within that stillness your truest most vulnerable thoughts will arise and it is these thoughts that will show you where your healing work must begin."
"I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -- not too strenuous, not too sedentary; trains and invigorates the mind."
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