Quotes About Introspection

I want to invite you to look at all your beliefs deeply and see if any are limiting you in any way

We can, each of us, work to put our own inner house in order." He viewed economics through a Buddhist lens, asserting that "the essence of civilization [is] not in a multiplication of wants but in the purification of human character.

You don't need to look to other people to help you be successful. There's only one place you need to look in order to find the validation and motivation you need to find success. The mirror.

By opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole.

Someone very wise once told me that by opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole.

In early February 2006, I was forty-seven and at the lowest point of my life.

Spirituality is about seeing, waking up out of a deep sleep, remembering what

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.

I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell."

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.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race — never quite sane in the night.

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

We all have thoughts that would shame the devil.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

The months of being disingenuously friendly and the resulting self-hatred taught me that self-confidence cannot be based on the approval of others.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who don't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves-people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

Great periods of poetry begin with an inordinate self-consciousness, and only gradually attain to the natural.

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'