Quotes About Introspection

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

You are what you think about.

In the end you have only you.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.