Quotes About Introspection

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend.

Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Friendship could be right under your nose but if you are caught up in yourself you will never find it.