Quotes About Introspection

The artist does not see things as they are but as he is.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.

Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

To avoid the trap of the Pharisees, we've got to guard the interconnection between our thoughts and our attitudes.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.

Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.

Our focus must be on what we need to change about ourselves-our attitudes, our words, our actions-even if our circumstances and the other people in our lives remain the same.

Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.