Quotes About Introspection

I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone.

I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up.

I always think of the good comebacks on the car ride home.

I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.

'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Writing, for me, means humility. It's a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you're writing honestly.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.

To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.