Quotes About Introspection

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

You shouldn't believe everything. What you see isn't always right. Is what you think truly right? Please, think about it again. A heart that obediently accepts things is fine, but shouldn't you question something just once? The truth is in a place you can't see.

On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view mirror

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.