Quotes About Introspection

Yoga, because it is focused so much on developing our inner mind rather than keeping up with outer names and forms, is all about independent thinking.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

Comme une eau, le monde vous traverse et pour un temps vous prête ses couleurs. Puis se retire, et vous replace devant ce vide qu'on porte en soi, devant cette espèces d'insuffisance centrale de l'âme qu'il faut bien apprendre à côtoyer, à combattre, et qui, paradoxalement, est peut-être notre moteur le plus sûr.

Un voyage se passe de motifs. Il ne tarde pas à prouver qu'il se suffit à lui-même. On croit qu'on va faire un voyage, mais bientôt c'est le voyage qui vous fait, ou vous défait.

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

I was fifteen and with every ounce of my strength I was leaning into my thoughts to make them slant reality toward the light.

Here I am, motionless in the room, watching what is going on in the street. Nothing. Only reality.

If you are wronged and do nothing but sulk about it, you wrong yourself even further.

It's strange, but sad. I think I'll always be sad.

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.

Pat was a complicated and occasionally contradictory man, which is to say he was human, he was flawed, and he was still in the act of self-discovery, of becoming.

Seek to know others and you will be amazed at how it will help you understand yourself.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Der Punkt ist, dass Feldexkursionen häufig eher ein Versuch des Forschers sind, eigene, sehr persönliche Probleme zu lösen, als dass sie dem Bemühen entspringen andere Kulturen zu verstehen.

despair evaporates when we stop denying who we really are and attempt to uncover and accept our true nature.

When others, a man begins to blame He'll soon find himself alone, The same.

Socrates "Life, he declared, is only worth living if you think about what you are doing. An unexamined existence is all right for cattle, but not for human beings.

As soon as you start to doubt your own existence, the act of doubting proves that you exist as a thinking thing. This

Kierkegaard was a Christian, though he hated the Danish Church and couldn't accept the way complacent Christians around him behaved. For him, religion was a heart-wrenching option, not a cosy excuse for a song in church.