Quotes About Introspection

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Do you know why I married you, Philip? Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer. She chuckled at that and shook her head...I believed, she confessed somberly, I honestly believed that I had something to offer you too--something you needed. Do you know what it was? I can't imagine. I thought I could teach you how to laugh and enjoy life. Philip and Caroline

Consider what an amoral, unprincipled cynicI am-think of all the improvements you could make to my character.

In fact, the only rash, ill-advised thing of any import he'd done in recent years was his behavior the weekend he'd met Elizabeth Cameron.

You're rather young, Miss Danner, Mary summarized, her pale blue gaze scraping Lauren's face and figure. I'm aging quickly, Laruen replied. Ignoring the older woman's piercing look, she settled into the secretarial desk opposite Mary's in the large officec.

Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.

In the wind that may travel as far as you have gone, I send this message: Out here, in a place you will not forget, a simple man has been moved to curse the rising sun and to question God's unfinished work.

Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?

I lived in New York for eleven and a half years and I don't think anybody ever asked me about my religion. I never even thought about it. Now, all of a sudden, it was the big thing in my life.

Understand that you're sensitive." Miri was proud for coming up with such a good word. "Is that like saying I'm dramatic, or crazy?" Miri was careful now. "Sensitive is better than dramatic, and it's definitely not as bad as crazy.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. What would you think of me doing a project on religion? You wouldn't mind, would you God? I'd tell you all about it. And I won't make any decisions without asking you first. I think it's time for me to decide what to be. I can't go on being nothing forever, can I?

I don't know where I stand in the world. I don't know who I am. That's why I read. To find myself. - Elizabeth, Age 13

There's a difference between lonely and alone.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I've been to church. I didn't feel anything special in there God. Even though I wanted to. I'm sure it has nothing to do with you.

And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

I did not drink because of my problems. I had problems because I drank. It would take me twenty-three years to figure that out.

I didn't know it was the booze, always the booze, that brought on the darkness.

Before the play begins, observe the theater.

It seems worthwhile, then, to begin with virtue, rather than with a type of ethical theory, and to see what kind of account can be produced.

The first ethical move is not to abstract from my individual context, still less to discount it, but rather to understand what it consists in, to achieve self-knowledge as far as I can, and then to think about how best to live my life in these circumstances.

understanding the conflict of reason and emotion within ourselves

We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.

Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, 'You're enough.