Quotes About Introspection

For however I may in former days as a young man have liked the notice which the being in a great man's train secures one, now that I have a fixed character of my own, obscurity is far the most agreeable.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Humble is such a lonely word.

Wash out your ego every once in a while — cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

The sins of others are filthy smelly dung; our own sins have the golden sparkle and aroma of a fine ale.

Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the character of individuals.

If you don't get enough time-outs as a child, you get them as a grownup.

Words are the indices of the mind.

A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

A pretty judge of soul, he, to be sure! a man that never laughed!

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Life is a neverending series of judgment calls.

Are you sure we are making the most of it?

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

I have my own little world, but it's okay — they know me here.

Look both ways before entering the insanity.

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

Meditation is to know oneself as one is. It is see our real face with out any mask.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear.