Quotes About Introspection

I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.

True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

It's a matter of dignity, " the Chief explained. "At a certain point, that's all you have left.

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.

Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

To have more empowering goals, look within

It's only after you've found what you want inside of you that you can find it outside of you.

Forest is a dream where you may find yourself and dream is a forest where you may lose yourself!

Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.