Quotes About Introspection

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.

To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

People are dream killers--you've got to be careful who you give emotional access to.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.

I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.

It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.

As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional?

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.