Quotes About Introspection

On into the void he flies, unafraid. There is nothing in mere absence that can cow him. Or loneliness. Or the lack of maps and charts. For he is his own path. And he sees by his own light. We watch him from a great distance. From a vantage point no less subjective, no less absolute. And so it's hard to tell whether he imposes himself on the emptiness, or becomes it.

It stops being funny, when it starts being you.

To get to a woman's heart, a man must first use his own.

The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart.

The world takes us nowhere, except within.

Let your guilt teach you, not punish you. And let the guilt of others do the same for them, no matter how grave their misunderstandings.

You have inner senses: intellect, intuition, and feelings.

The only judgment comes from yourself, the sternest judge of all, as you know too well.

Don't abdicate this highest of all responsibilities: to think for yourself.

It's one kind of victory to slay a beast, move a mountain, and cross a chasm, but it's another kind altogether to realize that the beast, the mountain, and the chasm were of your own design!

As a man thinketh, so he behaveth,

we fell out of love, but only one of us was prepared to say it.

Looking back, I don't think there was ever a point where I officially gave up on my dreams; instead I think it happened gradually, as these things do, so that I barely noticed the shift in my thinking.

I find myself whispering an apology to the person I used to be.

all thoughts, no matter how altruistic, always end up being self-centred in some way if you give them long enough

Aren't you curious? When did it stop working? Why did it stop working? Did we bring out the worst in each other? Was it just one persons fault or both of us? Aren't these questions everyone wants to ask when they split up with someone?

I keep quiet and she keeps quiet too, until we use up all the quiet in the room so that finally one of us has to say something.

In the middle of the night, waiting for daylight feels like forever, a forever where you're stuck going over every bad thought in your head with a fine-tooth comb.

a gradual leaking away of all conviction

Your self-portait decides your conduct.

Invest the time to connect deeply with yourself and find out what you really want. The answer to the question "What do I really want?" may change at different times in your life, but the key is to answer it as fully and as authentically as you can for this moment, right now. No one else can define what your life's desires are, so you must be willing to question yourself rigorously and deeply.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. JAMES JOYCE, AUTHOR

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Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.