Quotes About Introspection

What matters most is how you see yourself.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside, will never make any changes at all.

Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you.

Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you can't control what you think then, you can't control what you do.

I'm just that quiet girl who tries to be nice to everyone, who tries to understand everything, but still cannot escape the darkness that surrounds me. I'm that girl who tries to find herself, but has no luck doing so. I'm that girl who can never find Mr.Right or Ms. Right. I'm that girl who everyone forgets. I'm unique and awkward at times, but I can be funny or anything else anyone wants me to be. That's who I am.

Whenever you feel alone and abandoned just remind yourself that you came in this world alone and you will leave this world alone.

I listen with attention to the judgement of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own

Your life is the fruit of your own doing you have no one to blame but your self

Being alone makes me feel free and more independent. Responsibility is all I own!

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

The best person who can help you out of your problems is the one you see in the mirror.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

In life, don't give away so much of yourself for anyone... that when it comes to finding yourself, you'd be lost.

Value yourself as much as you know yourself.

Sometimes walking away has nothing to do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own.

Being single is much better than in a relationship with someone who always hurt you.

I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society

So delicate are our souls but it is us and inside us that with which we pull our bodies. No direction is definite when the compass has no source and yet we must go on.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.