Quotes About Introspection

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it

Sometimes she exhausted herself.

It seemed like everything he was feeling was right there in his eyes—a hint of nerves, a touch of laughter. No

When truth be told, if she ever had time to think about it, she wasn't sure if she was even that enthusiastic a fan of God anymore. He seemed to have dropped the ball a long time ago.

It was stupid to feel hurt that he had not told her he was going out, because this was the way they were living right now, but still her heart felt newly hurt, as tender and soft as bruised fruit.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

Approaching human life from the neutral sea was beginning to make me more appreciative.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

Devil on my shoulder, the lord is my witness. So on my Libra scare, Im weighing sins and forgiveness.

I think about more than I forget, but I dont go around fire expecting not to sweat.

I feel caged in my mind, its like my flow doin time. I goes crazy inside but when it comes out its fine.

So keep your mouth closed and let your eyes listen.

Swallow my words, taste my thoughts, and if they to nasty spit it back at me.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.