Quotes About Introspection

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.

What if philosophy is the problem, not the solution? What if the best response to philosophy is to cease doing it?

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart.

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

I was examining my thoughts. I saw they had other forms. I was measuring my emotions. I found their close borders. I was testing my bodily movements. I determined their simple significance. I was losing my benevolence. I have no more concentration. Those who guess will guess. I have nothing left to guess.

thinking about all the weird things

Until you make the unconscious conscious," Carl Jung said, "it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession

Sitting for even five minutes with a journal offers a rare cease-fire in the battle of daily life.

A diary or journal isn't necessarily something that should be done daily so much as it is a clue to how to see the daily world around oneself differently.

I never know what I'm going to want to curl up in bed with." I shrug. "How about a man?" she retorts.

I've learned if there's one gift you can give yourself in life, it's the freedom and courage to say "I don't know". Because I'll let you into a secret – you don't have to know. You don't have to know how you feel, or what you want, or if you're happy or if you're sad.

My theory is that's why our eyesight goes as we get older: to protect us from seeing ourselves in sharp focus.

I can't help feeling as if there's something missing in my life. But I don't know what it is. And the harder I look, the more I can't find it because there's just too much pressure and not enough time.

She was by herself whether she wanted to be or not, and no amount of brandy would make it any different.

It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers

Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.

Awkwardness defines my life.

The art of living in today's world requires us to reach inside ourselves and search for the answers.