Quotes About Introspection

I do not know You God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

God, please help me not be an asshole, is about as common a prayer as I pray in my life.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own – not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.

Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

Balance is the key to everything. What we do, think, say, eat, feel, they all require awareness and through this awareness we can grow.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

"You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to things you don't want to feel."

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

One of the main reasons people don't end toxic relationships is because they're afraid to be alone.

This is the substance of the way of the samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.

Stop trying to be less of who you. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

"Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself."

I have very intense feelings of joy or sadness. I used to not like that so much because I was worried it was girly, and I wanted to be more stoic. I think this happens a lot. When you're 16, there are qualities you wish you didn't have, and then when you're 30, you're like, 'Thank God I have that; otherwise, I'd be living less vividly.'

I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

If I lost the ability to speak, what would my life be saying?

The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

Learn the difference between a person that would have never given up on you and a person you pushed away.

Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.