Quotes About Introspection

I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.

Even the genius asks questions.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.

Even the genius ask questions.

Can one come 2 conclusions, Before the question is conceived?

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

Another thing about knowing who you are is that you know what you should not be doing, which can save you a lot of heartaches and false starts if you catch it early on.

Though you may not see any signs of sexual sin or weights, you still need to see Jesus on a regular basis for a checkup. P.46

Design can change how you look at yourself.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Being alone doesn't necessarily mean that you're lonely.

Half the time, the very thing you think that's going to destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to anybody with skeletons is dust them off every now and then—as long as your closet ain't full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

So my thing is, whatever you don't like, change it, but change it from the inside first.

Hell, sit back and work on yourself. How are you going to offer something to somebody else if you ain't been to visit you yet?

pendant qu'un détenu se coupe les veines et s'effondre dans son sang, ses compagnons de cellule terminent tranquillement le petit déjeuner. « Un homme perd son sang sous mes yeux et je lèche le fond de mon écuelle en ne pensant qu'au moment où l'on va me rapporter encore à manger. Reste-t-il encore en moi, en nous qui sommes ici, quelque chose d'humain ? »

You are not looking at anything; you are not in contact with anything living, as long as you use your thoughts to understand and experience anything.

I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first