Quotes About Introspection

Me había engañado pensando en que Shigeko era diferente, pero no. También ella era la vaca que da un latigazo fulminante e inesperado con la cola para matar a un tábano. Entonces supe que, a partir de ese momento, debería ser tímido incluso con aquella niña

I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear... and find peace in its bosom.

Facing our true selves is the first step toward living a life of purpose, connection, and genuine joy.

Learning from your mistakes does not happen automatically, it requires thinking and reflection.

Self-acceptance is how to find peace with one's soul.

You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

There is luxury in self-reproach.... When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God's presence, never in full view of the world.

At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you.