Quotes About Introspection

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

Provide opportunities for others to step back and take stock, both organizationally and individually: schedule offsites, process reviews, surveys, and open conversations; offer people the chance to review their careers and refocus their efforts in areas of growing interest to them.

Os verdadeiros começos começam dentro de nós, mesmo que suscitados por oportunidades externas.

Always consider the possibility that you may be wrong. Especially when you are absolutely certain you are right.

escape our own mind.

operate on automatic and never reflect on our inner dialogue.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Now that my ladder's gone,I must lie down where all the ladders start,In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

In dreams begins responsibility.

Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

Who can tell the dancer from the dance?

The fascination of what's difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart.

One sinks in on God; we do not see the truth; God sees the truth in us…. Tell them, Fool, that when the life and the mind are broken, the truth comes through them like peas through a broken peascod.

Things said or done long years ago,Or things I did not do or sayBut thought that I might say or do,Weigh me down, and not a dayBut something is recalled,My conscience or my vanity appalled.

My temptation is quiet.Here at life's endNeither loose imagination,Nor the mill of the mindConsuming its rag and bone,Can make the truth known.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take down this book.

The friends that have it I do wrongWhen ever I remake a songShould know what issue is at stake,It is myself that I remake.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?

The fascination of what's difficult has dried the sap out of my veins and rent spontaneous joy and natural content out of my heart.