Quotes About Introspection

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

One's greatest happiness is also his greatest weakness.

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, more so than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.

My secret to happiness? Keep sadness to yourself

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

Your life is an opportunity to question, discover, and explore.

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it, or you're up to something.

All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.

My writing, it's my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.