Quotes About Introspection

Day and night, look into your mind. If your stream of mind contains any nonvirtue, renounce it from the core of your heart and pursue virtue.

Solitude is the source of happiness

You can only trust yourself... and barely that.

Follow your muses instead of trying to solve the social wounds of your adolescence. We've lost a whole generation of people who are dealing with their environment by retreating, by going into therapy. So instead, you go to open mic at a crummy tavern and perform your art. Rather than being introspective and constantly working on your shortcomings, get angry, get excited, get social.

Nothing could be more vital than to be suspicious of the voice in my head.

Sometimes I'm afraid the main reason I spend half of my life outdoors is simply because there aren't any mirrors.

People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

We are up in the attic doing a jigsaw puzzle, which may be the single fastest way one OCD person reveals herself to another.

We cannot change who we are. Sooner or later we will all have to face ourselves.

rousing myself from my memories.

for many hours. "He didn't

No podemos cambiar quienes somos. Tarde o temprano tendremos que enfrentarnos a nosotros mismos.

You must see yourself as you want others to see you,

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

Baywatch was a turning point for me. Reluctantly famous (in over 150 countries) I tried to make sense of my place on earth. I started to realize -- while being interviewed endlessly about silly things. That I had a Voice!!!

If you think you're going to play an angel you're greatly mistaken,

God, she was a sight. Just watching her made his heart beat faster. Did she have any idea how beautiful she was, or had a life of working in pantsuits and facing down society's violent assholes left her unaware of her own feminine appeal?

One day I have a revelation. 'I think we're actually quite compatible,' I tell him. 'You're irritable, and I'm irritating.

The seminal journey of the forties is from "everyone hates me" to "they don't really care.

if you act (and dress) as if you have a fascinating inner life, you may soon find that you actually do—and that you feel more balanced as a result.

Much of life consists of the dead time between events. Don't fill these interstitial moments with pornography and cat videos.

Maybe we should freak him out and start following him for a change. That would force him to either do his own thinking or give up.

But it was only while lolling around the basement or backyard that you'd settle into the anesthetizing effects of boredom, and with that monotony, your brain would kick into action, attempting to compensate. You might notice the world around you, both the minute and the grand, at its natural pace, letting go of the need to relentlessly move on to the next new thing.

You know everything and you know nothing… And in that there's this: You will always learn something new. About him. About her. About yourself. And in learning the bad, the uncomfortable, the messy- it's what you take away that counts. What will you do with that knowledge? Will you leave? Pull tighter? Ignore it? Use it to fall in love even deeper? That's when you learn more about yourself.