Quotes About Introspection

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else.

Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think.

I am still inside here, with my own thoughts, and my own worries, and my own obsessions, and my own rage.

You look at me like I have something to be sad about. My existence makes you grateful you are not me.

Four years of sitting in your room reading, and now you're out here with the common folk," I say. "What did inspire you to suddenly make the trip?" "I would have come sooner," she says, brushing her hair out of her face. "You just never invited me.

You don't really know anything about yourself until you've been forced to deal with pain, real pain.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

When you find youself in a hole - stop digging.

Never miss a good chance to shut up." ? Will Rogers

Never in our history was we able to blame someone else for our troubles.

Where I come from if a man can't think of anything to pray about offhand, why, there is no need of him praying.

What are you reading? isn't a simple question when asked with genuine curiosity; it's really a way of asking, Who are you now and who are you becoming?