Quotes About Introspection

In your heart you know whether you are as close to God as you ought to be; keep your ears open to your conscience, your heart open to God and your eyes in the Word. 1

You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

A great painter of men must (as has been said) have a faculty of conversing, but he must also have a capacity for solitude. There is much of mankind that a man can only learn from himself.

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

A people never hears censure of itself.

Every place that I have lived haunts me. I always feel like I was never attentive enough and that I missed something, when in reality it's so much more, I missed volumes.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.

Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.

He opened his eyes to see the dented skull cap, still on the chair where Henry had left it. He looked at it a long while, knowing that it was far better to accept it than to turn away and forever fear it.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

The true test of your Calvinism comes just here: How low is self and how high is God in your heart? Almost every moment of your life offers a test.

if you are in a situation or difficulty, you can make a U-turn; instead of putting the blame on something outside or on someone else, look within yourself to see how you have contributed to the problem, and then find a way to restore peace to the situation.

you think the two of us have changed enough to make it interesting again?" Bitsy put her paw on the pavement. "Sometimes," she said, "I'm immensely grateful that I don't possess a limbic system.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

The most interesting kind of portraiture is that which arises spontaneously in people's minds.

Yet in truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.