Quotes About Introspection

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

we give so much attention to our protective layers of fear, depression, confusion, and aggression that we forget who we really are.

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you.

You will determine what this change will be in your story by thinking about your main character in considerable depth. Having done so, you will then write down his self-concept in a maximum of ten or fifteen words.

It's been said that we're all three people: the one we see ourselves as being, the one others see us as being, and the one we really are.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

The passport to a better life is to think about your death occasionally.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

Although many people can be your helper, no one should be closer to you than your own consciousness.

No friend is better than your own wise heart!" Genghis Khan

I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.

Just as you would when making a new work of art, don't ask for help or seek the judgment of others. You don't want to be subjected to another person's limitations or expectations.

thinking that this conversation was going

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

The road that was in your head Has already found you walking: When you looked up ahead, It was your footsteps waiting. - The Imaginary Road

I am lying to myself. I am always lying to myself and I really must stop it. I am alone. My friends don't know how to talk to me or write to me any more

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?