Quotes About Introspection

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.

Study everything, but study yourself first.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Silence is sometimes the best answer

There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.