Quotes About Introspection

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Seek not outside yourself, Heaven is within.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

I spend a lot of time thinking of the Hereafter - each time I enter a room I wonder what I'm here after.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

Before you judge another, ask yourself if what you don't like in them is actually what you don't like in yourself.

He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.

All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

If you just look for what's right - in others, in relationships, in yourself and your journey - you'll always find it. Same when looking for what's wrong.