Quotes About Introspection

W]hat is man, that he dares so to accuse himself?

I was going to stop being so cynical but probably nobody would even notice.

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.

found him on his bench, sober and sorry for it.

Why am I helping to force other people to live in a way I couldn't stand to live?" The Mage didn't answer, seeming to be sunk in thought, but she didn't know what the answer was, either, and was horrified at having said such a thing.

Doubt about your wisdom can be the clearest sign of wisdom

It's funny how much you don't realize about the people you've spent your whole life with, isn't it?

We spend all of our time doing that stuff instead of talking to the people right next to us, the people who know us. I don't know them and they don't know me. How can you find yourself when you're part of an infinite crowd and everybody is yelling?

Almost invisible in the dark, he sighed. "Why am I doing this?" "Because you're a better person than you think you are.

Your one flaw is that you haven't seen who you really are," Jason said, looking embarrassed. "You think that's my one flaw? Oh, are you in for some difficult surprises

blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose. ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS, M.D.

Don't kid yourself.Be honest with yourself.Take your own inventory".

All of the results you are currently experiencing in your life are absolutely perfect for you. This includes your career, personal relationships and financial status.

I like Dr. Daniel Amen's 18/40/60 Rule: When you're 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you're 40, you don't give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you're 60, you realize nobody's been thinking about you at all.

Remember this—your outward behavior is the truth, whereas your inner perception of your behavior is often an illusion.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

The human mind is a strange and wonderful thing," he said reflectively, "but I'm not sure it will ever figure itself out. Everything else, maybe—from sub-atomic particles to the universe—except itself.

We are not so much defined by the wars we fight across the globe, but by the wars we have fought within ourselves as a nation.

I wish," she continued, turning back to herself, "that there was a path of words I could walk down and they would lead me into a grotto pool where I could re-purify myself and return to the girl I was. But there isn't a path, or even a girl. She's gone, and I'm stuck trying to invent who I want to be, and I'm finding that figuring out who I want to be is so much harder than just being who I was when I was a little kid.

She was always more fair to me than I was to her, and somehow this kept me from being totally honest with her.

I could see everything she said as if it were a wall painting inside the cave of my own skull.

I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

Walking in the dark streets of Seoul under the almost full moon. Lost for the last two hours. Finishing a loaf of bread and worried about the curfew. I have not spoken for three days and I am thinking, "Why not just settle for love? Why not just settle for love instead?