Quotes About Introspection

One way to look at a painting—and I use that word as shorthand for visual art in general—is to notice as you take its measure what it is you actually find yourself thinking about, which may differ from what you imagine you're supposed to be thinking about.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

For some moments in life, there are no words.

the therapy had indeed been troubling, for she had scratched the surface of her fears, and found beneath it a bottomless pit of anxiety and despair. The life she led was fraught with confusion, and she felt she no longer knew who she was. She remembered who she used to be and what she once wanted, but that was all gone now, and she could envision no future.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

I think, How innocent we are of our mistakes and how responsible we are for them.

Don't confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them.

The seventh and eighth grade were for me, and for every single good and interesting person I have ever known, what the writers of the bible meant when they used the words hell and pit ...It was all over for any small feeling that one was essentially all right. One wasn't...It was springtime, for Hitler, in Germany. Anne Lamott

In my first group, a counselor asked me why i'm here. he said, 'What's your problem? I said ' i'm a drug addict and an alcoholic.' he shook his head. 'no.' he said, 'that's how you've been treating your problem. what is your problem?

Since reason and love, the forces I had come to rely on in my life, have betrayed me, I am in unknown territory.

sometimes a warrior's task is to sit with defeat.

I am a sucker to contemplate opening to the idea of healing.

Misery is too self-absorbed to want much company.

I am a ducker to contemplate opening to the idea of healing.

I never planned to pray. I just looked back and realized I had been praying. …. What did I pray for?

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how responsible we are for them.

What is true for you in your private heart is true for all men.

Deep down, you know you're him.

Let a man go to the bottom of what he is and believe in that.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see, and what it means.

autobiography is concerned with the consciousness of its creator in the process of creating himself.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.