Quotes About Introspection

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

When mouths close, it's because there's something important to be said.

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

Record things in your heart. It's more important than trying to show people what you're experiencing.

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

Though the brain says all is well, the soul is lost, confused, doesn't know why life is being unfair to it.

Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.

But every day we meet someone whose behavior suddenly changes from one moment to the next. And we wonder: what happened to this person I thought I knew? Why is he acting so aggressively? Is it stress at work? And then the next day the person is normal again. You're relieved, but soon after the rug is pulled out from under you when you least expect it. And this time, instead of asking what's wrong with this person, you wonder what you did wrong.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask Gd to give me th courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge. If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

I have learned to suffer in silence.

I couldn't have found God in the seminary, he thought, as he looked at the sunrise.