Quotes About Introspection

We are all weak men. I am weak in ways that you are not. You are weak in a way that I am not. These are the thorns in the flesh that keep us both from becoming puffed up.

The majority of men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others. Terribly objective sometimes. But the real task is, in fact, to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.'

Koristiti se drugim ljudskim bi?em kao objektom,?ak i u privatnosti vlastitih misli,zna?i poniziti bi?e te osobe. To zna?i dehumanizirati i samoga sebe i drugoga.

Freedom of the heart has a price, Aleksandr", Father Serafim continued in an unhurried tone. "To face the darkness within oneself is part of it.

None of us hears properly", he went on. "Every one of us is tied up in our inner noise.

There's a dialogue between the self and the soul", he said. "They aren't enemies. More like two lenses trying to get in focus.

rare indeed was the soul who remained unaffected by his own public image.

I began to find it more important to forgive my enemy on the day I found out that I am my enemy.

Each soul is weighed as if it were the only one.

The second temptation is of a more sinister nature: the temptation to hate yourself because you have not lived up to your ideal. That is pride, and it is very dangerous. It opens the door to much worse things.

tell you, your heart will be fully broken, and then only will you find your true heart.

David dropped his eyes. In a low voice, he said, "One can be alone, even in a household full of people who speak incessantly.

leaders strike the right balance between doing (making things happen) and being (observing and reflecting).

Michael Dahl

Why waste a life in search of an epitaph?

It was all very well growing old disgracefully and running your umbrella along life's railings, but when you'd annoyed as many people as possible and told yourself you'd thoroughly enjoyed it, you still had to return home to a cold hearth and deal with it on your own.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

People get it wrong and think it's about being good enough, when in reality it's about being lost and not knowing it.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Wake up! Don't let them control you. Don't let them impose an identity on you. Don't obey them. Never submit to a prophet or a holy book. Think for yourself. Wear what you like. Eat what you like. Pray when you like. Don't you want to be free rather than a slave? Create your own identity. Create yourself. Because only those who do can become God. Nietzsche, an atheist, came far closer to the True God than any follower of any mainstream religion.

If you want to be a real person living in the real world, the first thing you must do is get off the grid. Take the first brave step and delete your Facebook profile. After all, you surely wouldn't want the words carved on your headstone to be: "I was registered with Facebook. I had 101 online friends (and I even knew a few of them). My current mood is: Sad.

The kingdom of God is within us. Now go inside yourself and find it!