Quotes About Introspection

What each one of us fundamentally needs is that inner peace which is to be discovered solely within ourselves, which no-one else can give, which the world with all its resources, can never supply.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by.

And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

Ask yourself to slow down.

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

I won't be indulging in anger anymore, vehemently and self-righteously singing protest songs, and expecting them to bring peace to me or anyone else.

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

You have peace, when you make it with yourself.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

I've made my peace with myself.

The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...

But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.

Know, accept and make peace with you own self to live soulfully.

Set a daily solitude time for reflection and rethinking.