Quotes About Introspection

leary timothy iii

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing

Many times I've lied, many times I've listened, many times I've wondered how much there is to know.

And as we wind on down the road Our shadows taller than our souls There walks a lady we all know Who shines white light and wants to show How everything still turns to gold And if you listen very hard The tune will come to you at last Where all are one and one is all To be a rock and not to roll.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west, And my spirit is crying for leaving. In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees, And the voices of those who standing looking. Ooh, it makes me wonder, Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Good leaders know who they are—their strengths, weaknesses, passions, talents, and values. And, developing leaders always starts with self-awareness.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

The only baggage they brought with them was psychological.

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My idea of a good time is sitting quietly with my own thoughts and not making eye contact with anyone.

Carl Jung: "Life is an experiment in consciousness that most people fail.

There are just some kind of men ... who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.

Character is what we are in the dark

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

Television is simply automated day-dreaming.

It has occurred to me since that perhaps what we call depression isn't really a disorder at all but, like physical pain, an alarm of sorts, alerting us that something is undoubtedly wrong; that perhaps it is time to stop, take a time out, take as long as it takes, and attend to the unaddressed business of filing our souls.

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?

If you're not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you.