Quotes About Introspection

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder.

I explored because I was feeling really crappy, and I wanted to know why

This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn't chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.

We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.

No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.

God help me, I'm just not that bright.

All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about.

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who walk into a room and say 'Here I am' and those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are.