Quotes About Introspection

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.

Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.

Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

I woke to the sound of rain.

I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.

She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five