Quotes About Introspection

You and I need to say it to ourselves again and again. We need to look in the mirror and make the confession as part of our morning routine. Here's what we all need to say: "I am not a grace graduate.

Today you will spend solitary moments of conversation with yourself, either listing your complaints or counting your blessings.

Inspection means that we invite people to step over the normal boundaries of leadership relationships to look into our lives to help us see things that we would not see on our own. It means inviting fellow leaders to watch for our souls.

We all tend to want to think we are more righteous than we actually are.

The heart of true prayer is vertical confession, not horizontal desire.

Consideración. ¿Qué quiere Dios que la persona vea? Confesión. ¿Qué quiere Dios que la persona reconozca y confiese? Compromiso. ¿A qué nuevas formas de vida está llamando Dios a esta persona? Cambio. ¿Cómo deben aplicarse estos nuevos compromisos a la vida diaria?

Wasn't this rugged business of taking your life apart, looking at all of it and admitting and remembering and reminding yourself of all the bad - wasn't the big result of it your getting to be honest? "Exactly that," said Ferguson.

Hij zei: 'Filip, schep het verleden om vrij te zijn voor de toekomst. Trek je eigen karikatuur en je bent ervan af.' Hij antwoordde: 'Goed Filip, maar wat met de schuwe wezel van het schuldgevoel, het vlugge nooit voldane roofdier?

Ik of hij, vanop een afstand ben ik hij, teruglopend word ik ik.

I don't have any ill will toward anybody, except for maybe the people...yeah, the people.

You can trust your own experiences more than your desires.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

I've realized that prayer can become the occasion for a good bit of unintentional dishonesty with myself, or maybe an escape from my own messy reality.

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Para ver cierro los ojos

I shut my eyes in order to see.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.

Shut your eyes in order to see.

I find everything poetic, and it's in the corners of my heart which are sometimes mysterious that I catch a glimpse of poetry… I feel a sensation that leads me into a poetic state…

it's still something of a shock to recognise just how 'multiple' we are.

No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about.