Quotes About Introspection

When you know yourselves,7 then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty and you are poverty.

Finding your voice is like finding your self.

I was at a most impressionable age when I was transplanted to the new soil. I was in that period when even normal children, undisturbed in their customary environment, begin to explore their own hearts, and endeavor to account for themselves and their world.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.

I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again....

We have to be more reflective about what power is, what it is for

Mais pour regner il faut se taire.

We're so busy trying to please those we care about, that we lose track of what's important to us.

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend the time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.

Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

No matter where you go, there you are.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Why are men so secretive, why are they afraid of the truth, sometimes even of themselves?

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.