Quotes About Introspection

Know what happened, wonder what happened or ignore what happened and i would not want to be 2 or 3

What, exactly, am I going to do with my life?

Think lightly of yourself and think deeply of the world. MIYAMOTO MUSASHI

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

How much more of this? Merrily sat down in a chair at the end of the back row, feeling as though she'd been mugged. Fragments of faith scattered like credit cards in the gutter.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have – and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

The time to make your mind up about people, is never.

The time to make up your mind about people, is never.

Julian bought a few bottles of wine and beer. In the car on the way to the house, Julian said, "Why? Why do these things happen to me; what did I do to deserve such a fate, such a thing? I always did my best, didn't I?

What qualifies as a good question? It's one that gets us thinking about something worth thinking about. So one way to identify a good question is what I call the smack-the-forehead test: when you read the question after time has passed, you smack your forehead and say, "If only I had thought of that before!

Researchers have found that merely asking people to assume their initial judgment is wrong, to seriously consider why that might be, and then make another judgment, produces a second estimate which, when combined with the first, improves accuracy almost as much as getting a second estimate from another person.

As Alexander would confess years later, sex and sleep more than anything else reminded him that he was mortal. One

If you don't think much of yourself, why should I, since you obviously know yourself better than anyone else?

the point of writing music and experiencing music isn't to make people comfortable necessarily

Do you habitually find fault instead of looking for signs of goodness? Can you transform your disdain into a kinder feeling? Remember, you'll be doing it not for the other person, but to protect your soul from toxic emotions.

Start with an honest analysis of why you are in opposition, not in government.

You must, although you know you won't like what you'll see.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

This is a good place for thinking about your life, a few days in this place.

I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which ones hold everything up.

I missed the sad things about growing old, when women no longer look at you, when wine makes you weep instead of laugh and makes your mouth sour with the taste of weakness, and every day is one day nearer death.