Quotes About Introspection

On any journey, we must find out where we are before we can plan the first step.

David looked at her and smiled. "I think you have to feel comfortable being alone with yourself before you truly know who you are and can feel comfortable being yourself with others.

No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show.

In the end you only answer to yourself!

I know it does not matter that I do not understand.

Only when your inner life is right will your outer life be right as well.

Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.

Nobody said it's going to be easy. You have to dig into yourself. Think about your family. Think about the journey itself. THINK IN THE MOMENT.

I'm a living abortion.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.

I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I'm pretty solitary. I'm a homebody. So I don't get out much to get into trouble

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.

The one-liner of this movie [ The Hollars], you've probably heard before: 'A guy goes home to his family and finds out about himself.

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.