Quotes About Introspection

I'm not afraid of the darkness outside. It's the darkness inside houses I don't like.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.

You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?

All that you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it.

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Without realizing who you are, happiness cannot come to you.

When you are alone you are all your own.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

Silence is often advantageous.

Behind a cold face there is always an insecure heart.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

It's better to look at the sky than live there

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.