Quotes About Introspection

I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him.

You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says. By such signs you can tell, for instance, what he thinks of his wife . . .

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

Theoretically, there is always a better place for a person to live, better work to do, a better spouse to wed, better friends to have. But then this person must meet herself coming beck. Theoretically, there always is a better inhabitant of this place, a better member of this community, a better worker, spouse, and friend than she is. This surely describes one of the circles of Hell, and who hasn't traveled around it a time or two?

As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

I have thrown away my lantern, and I can see the dark.

He went through the old motions of his life, taking care of what needed caring for, keeping mostly quiet about what was on his mind. But his hard waiting changed him; you could see it in his face.