Quotes About Introspection

One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you.

If you keep shining the neon light of analysis and accountability on the tender tissue of your belonging, you make it parched and barren.

I feel that fear is negative wonder. It is the point at which wonder begins to consume itself and scrape off the essence of things.

they don't know that the outside could be the inside if only they would stop all this pushing and shoving and screaming, and they haven't got enough sense to realize that.

When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.

Author Evelyn Waugh was a Catholic who fell pretty woefully short of his faith's standards. Somebody asked Waugh one time, "How can you call yourself a Catholic and be so badly behaved, so mean, such a jerk, so spiteful?" Waugh responded, "Just imagine me if I were not a Catholic." And

When we give vent to the soul, to try what grace is there, corruption comes out; and when we search for corruption, grace appears. So

So it seems to have been with David after his sin with Bathsheba. I doubt not but that before the message of God to him by Nathan, he had unpleasing thoughts of what he had done; but there are not the least footsteps in the story or any of his prayers that he laid it seriously to heart and was humbled for it before. This

Men certainly speak peace to themselves when their so doing is not attended with the greatest detestation imaginable of that sin in reference whereunto they do speak peace to themselves, and abhorrency of themselves for it.

When we are overtaken with a sin, we sometimes fail to analyze how we fell. This is to our great disadvantage. We repent of the sin, but we do not consider the temptation that was the cause of it.

i don't know what your situation is but i wanted you to know what mine is not just to explain some rude behavior, but because we're on a little boat for a while and... i'm soul sick. and you're going to see that.

If you close your eyes, you will be a party to all that comes after.

Thinking's worse than February.

Admitting to a problem is the first step toward finding a solution. Confessing a sin is the beginning of redemption.

The philosopher Ernst Mach once got on a bus, and saw a scruffy unkempt bookish-looking person at the far end. He thought to himself (1) That man is a shabby pedagogue. In fact, Mach was seeing himself in a large mirror at the far end of the bus, of the sort conductors used to help keep track of things. He eventually realized this, and thought to himself: (2) I am that man. (3) I am a shabby pedagogue.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Saya yakin ujian pertama bagi orang besar adalah kerendahan hati.

I believe the first test of truly a great man is in his humility.

Felt the dark finger of hypocrisy stroking his soul.

depression was to be feared—and he could feel it sniffing around outside his door, looking for a way in.

Sunday morning, coming down.

THEY SAT LOOKING at the pictures for a few seconds, then Sloan said