Quotes About Introspection

The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.

If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'

Just because someone is single doesn't mean they're lonely. Some people are in relationships and they've forgotten what happiness is.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

I had little talent for happiness.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

I always see what's... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what's wrong. I never see what's right. It's not a recipe for happiness.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".