Quotes About Introspection

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Most people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying that they made them.

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

One may conquer millions in battle, but he who conquers himself, only one, is the greatest of conquerors.

We must admit that very often we are afraid or ashamed to look at our own minds. So we prefer to avoid it. One should be bold and sincere and look at one's own mind as one looks at one's face in a mirror.

O K?l?mas, when you know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome (akusala), and wrong, and bad, then give them up . . . And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome (kusala) and good, then accept them and follow them.

I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing a big game and talk about how we could have done something differently to change the outcome

We have met the enemy and they are us!

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

We have met the enemy and it is us.

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self-contained.

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,In you I wrap a thousand onward years.

Those things most listened for, certainly those are the things least said.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age—I and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul.