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Quotes About Introspection

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline, too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse.
~ Dale Dauten
I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.
~ Walt Whitman
So that we can truly admire this wonderful painting we will have to know ourselves first of all, to accept our limits and understand that if we really want to have access to this wonderful painting of the existence of the world of the Logical Coefficient 2 we will have to look inside ourselves, to see first of all the unlimited Universe, to recognise the infinite from which we were conceived and that lies in each of us in order to be granted access to the infinite outside us.
~ Sorin Cerin
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
~ Donald Robert Perry Marquis
I don't fell good.
~ Luther Burbank
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.
~ Lao-Tzu
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?
~ Judith Guest
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
~ Oscar Hammerstein II
I was onstage and I was shocked; it hurt so badly. I thought: Why am I doing this? Why do I sing about needing to get better so she'll come back? That's a real problem I have. I don't need to get better - I need to find someone who likes me the way I am, someone who finds Chris desirable.
~ Unknown
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Im sorry for being me. I wont ever do it again.
~ Janeane Garofalo
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
I've had a lover's quarrel with the world
~ Robert Frost
My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.
~ Unknown
Both hands... Now use both hands. Oh no, don't close your eyes.
~ Ani DiFranco
We each define our god, and from this definition, we set the criteria for self-love
~ Jeremy Taylor
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
~ Andre Breton
Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
~ Unknown
Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.
~ James Joyce
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
~ Ben Hecht
I'm weaker than you know.
~ Lynda Barry