Quotes About Introspection

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.

my principal fault was an unconquerable pitch of pride, which exposed me to frequent mortification.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

The point is, the only real tools we have are our eyes and our heads. It's not the act of seeing with our eyes alone; it's correctly comprehending what we see. Treating life as an autopsy.

I stood there alone in the eerily silent streets of Las Vegas and listened to my penis cry.

You're at the age where the rush of the job has passed and the grind of the job is taken in stride, and this is the time when you're wondering if it wouldn't be so bad if you just stopped giving much of a shit and rolled along doing as little as possible.

Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow imagined his younger self standing down the timeline of his present life, bare toes curling in teenage beach sand, looking ahead to today and watching his future life collapse in on itself like a dying star. His future life becoming small and dark and dense, its gravity apparently grim and inescapable. Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow spent some cash on a bottle of vodka and drank it at home within an hour.

She fixed him with a gaze that said that she had looked into the void and that she was really not impressed with it.

There was so much silence. The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around inside for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.

The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around within for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.

None of it seemed real. He laughed at Mount Hood, capped with silvered white in the middle of summer. Who paints a frosted mountaintop into a summer scene? What a ridiculous failure of reality. He stopped laughing when he remembered it was a failure of reality that put him in this car in the first place, and was quiet for a long time.

You wanted a more interesting world… Maybe I'm growing up quickly. Maybe I'm better than you planned… Maybe I'm just showing you that your world was interesting enough all the time, all on its own. And now I'm punishing you.

They are trying to look within, to differentiate, to discriminate, to analyze, and in doing so are bringing themselves into deeper bondage. Now this is a situation which is really dangerous to Christian life, for inward knowledge will never be reached along the barren path of self-analysis.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.

When you squeeze an orange, you'll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what's inside. The same logic applies to you: when someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, or says something unflattering or critical, and out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, tension, depression, or anxiety, that is what's inside. If love and joy are what you want to give and receive, change your life by changing what's inside.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

Focus on understanding yourself instead of blaming others.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. —ALDOUS HUXLEY

Do not give attention to what others do or fail to do; give attention to what you do or fail to do

My outer world looked great, but my inner world, where I do all of my living, felt incomplete and restless.

Remind yourself that what other people do is not what bothers you, it's your reaction to it. Instead of saying "They shouldn't do that," say, "I wonder why I bother myself with what they are doing.

You cannot have a feeling without first having a thought. Your behavior is based upon your feelings, which are based upon your thoughts. So the thing to work on is not to change your behavior, but those things inside of your consciousness that we call thoughts. Once your thoughts reflect what you genuinely want to be, the appropriate emotions and the consequent behavior will flow automatically. Believe it, and you will see it!

The genius in you isn't seeking confirmation from others, but quiet space for its ideas to blossom.