Quotes About Introspection

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Often, its not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but dont know how to be.

You have 3 choices in life. You can watch things happen, make things happen or wonder what the hell happened.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

It is necessary...for a man to go away by himself...to sit on a rock...and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?'

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

All my life flashed before my eyes...it was really boring.

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?

Remember where you have been and where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.

We all need to be philosophical if we going to traverse the journey of life.

An unexamined life is not worth living...

One of the greatest things in life may not be life itself, but the knowledge of how to live that life.

Life is not what you see, but what you've projected. It's not what you've felt, but what you've decided. It's not what you've experienced, but how you've remembered it. It's not what you've forged, but what you've allowed. And it's not who's appeared, but who you've summoned. And this should serve you well, beloved, until you find, what you already have.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things