Quotes About Introspection

What does this negative thought or feeling show about you and your core values that's positive and awesome?

your thoughts create your feelings.

But your feelings are not always a reliable guide to reality and

In fact, you may even find that there are many times when it was more enjoyable to be alone, and you might discover that the highest ratings you received when you were alone were equal to or higher than those for activities involving others.

Unadorned suffering is the bedmate of masculine growth. Only by staying intimate with your personal suffering can you feel through it to its source.

You are the only one who can decide what is important to you in your relationship.

It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

And how long dost thou expect this dying of thine to persist?' The voice seemed only mildly curious. 'I don't know' I replied through a sudden wave of self pity. 'I've never done it before.

Until a person learns to laugh at himself, though, his life will be a tragedy – at least that's the way he'll see it.

Do you think that praying in a loud voice and pounding your head on the ground will keep him from seeing into your heart?

won't be them; it will be me.

Today, we think that each person must find his or her own way of being spiritual, something that is comfortable to that person; each spirituality is particular to each person.

There is nothing that a coward hates more than to be reminded of his own weakness.

There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.

I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

morning is the soul's night.

But if I decide to decide there's a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won't the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.

I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that's odd, isn't it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?

There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.

He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.