Quotes About Introspection

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

From C. R. Rogers's (1961) perspective, the problems of inauthenticity arise not because a person hides his real emotional reactions from others (as may sometimes be appropriate) but because he hides them from himself.

When you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three fingers back at ourselves.

Our minds are full of things our hearts do not understand and that my love, is why the world is filled with so much chaos.

Sometimes, I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart, and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am.

I had imagined myself into existence. I wrote because of an inner need,and that need was to create a clearer vision of myself, and in writing I became what I wrote.

Those who listen at closed doors rarely hear good of themselves," his mother had warned him as an adolescent.

He breathed in and felt that the air existed, certainly, as it circulated in and filled out two lunglike shapes, but what did that mean? One could have an entire face - something he wasn't sure he had right now - and still not exist.

If there's any greater exhibit of the malleability of human nature than the sight of someone standing, absently waiting for the light to change at a deserted intersection, I don't know what it is.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.

was too young to know if my heart misbehaved itself in any way

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

Be cautious of what is within you; block off what is outside you, for much knowledge will do you harm.

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without.

It was June 1980. I was standing in front of a full-length mirror studying my body. What I saw didn't please me. My face was full of deep wrinkles and lines, while the top of my forehead sported hairless patches of skin; vacant and deathly white chunks of scalp that, I realized with a certain amount of terror, could no longer be camouflaged by deft parting and combing. It was very depressing.

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?