Quotes About Introspection

When you're hurting deeply, you go inward.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts...

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

There are certain things I do not talk about.

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

The point is, if someone abandons you, it may be less about you and more about them.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

The truth is, I don't want to be disappointed again. Not by someone else's shortcomings, and especially not by my own.

So, what is my story? I don't know. It's long and twisted and not quite finished yet.

I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.

If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude

Someone asked me, what colour were those two years of living in Korea? I thought about it for a long time. There was no colour, I don't know what colour hard work is.

Work therefore is the paramount key to discovering yourself.

Expand Your selfReach out to your big mind, Where the treasures of life you shall find.And you can do this by expanding yourself, You will be able to do that when within yourself you delve.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.