Quotes About Introspection

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.

When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Look within!... The secret is inside you.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

I shut my eyes in order to see.