Quotes About Introspection

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.

Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.

Emotional pain of any kind is a reminder to stop and look inside.

It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone else's behavior.

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.