Quotes About Introspection

He'd always been the same person. He marveled at how in books people looked back fondly to remembered selves as if they were lost acquaintances. But he'd never been anything but this one self.

Love, he thought. It would come out soon enough. Words and feelings were all churned up together inside him, finding each other like lost parts of an atom. He didn't try to push them apart or away. He let them float in the new fullness in his chest.

I don't think we should do this anymore.' 'Do what?' 'Go out.' He laughs and pulls me closer. 'What are you talking about?' I don't normally have to break up with anyone. Usually they do it for me, or I leave the state or the country. I don't have to spell it out very often.

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

We're all in this alone.

Just remember, we're all in this alone.

Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

All my life I always wanted to be someone. I see now I should have been more specific.

Who are we? That is the first question. It is a question almost impossible to answer. But we all agree that the busy self occupied in our daily activities is not quite the real self. We are quite sure we have lost something in the mere pursuit of living.

Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

All the strange, checkered past seems to crowd upon my mind.

I would like to call upon his friends everywhere to consider how they have come in so short a time to view this matter in a way so entirely different from their former belief; to ask whether they are not being borne along by an irresistible current--whither, they know not.

Indignation overruled introspection.

As Linda says again and again, the simple life isn't the easy life. Each soul here is enormously courageous. The conflicts in their lives have not been trivial. It's taken most of them a great deal of time, introspection and explanation to arrive at their chosen sanity. They are intrepid explorers, leaving the security of the known for the hoped-for brighter tomorrow.

Lord, I give You permission to search my heart and mind. Please show me every day what it feels like to be my husband.

Because we cannot be skilled at thinking unless we are skilled at questioning, we strive for a state of mind in which essential questions become second nature. They are the keys to productive thinking, deep learning, and effective living.

By facing your own hypocrisy, you begin to grow beyond it (while recognizing that you can never get full command of your hypocrisy because you can never get full command of your egocentricity). When you recognize it in others (especially those of status), they are less able to manipulate you.

Your library is your portrait.

But sometimes we have to be brave in order to dig deep and find answers. Even if we're not sure we're going to like the answers.

I don't remember exactly when books became my refuge, but it was in the pages of a world created out of thin air that I began to find pieces I recognized as myself.