Quotes About Introspection

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.