Quotes About Introspection

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

Writers write about what worries them.

And perhaps I have tried too hard to be someone else without realizing at first what I presently am.

Like the shore changing with the swing of the tides, I seem to be uncovering long-hidden propensities, dormant aspects of myself newly exposed by the pull of the moon. For here I am when the tide goes out - speeder slowing down, fighter finding harmony, activist turned contemplative, analyzer seeking synthesis, communard become solitaire, rationalist grown spiritual, teacher turned student, desired dissolving in contentment.

You will get to where you are going by remembering who you are…

Individuality, therefore, harbours its own enemy at home.'2

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

What poor substitutes for real diversity are the wild rainbows of dyed hair and other external differences that tell the observer nothing about what is inside.

In order to know such an amorphous being as man, Rousseau himself and his particular history are, in his view, more important than is Socrates quest for man in general or man in himself.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

People found that Freuds know thyself led them to the couch, where they emptied their tank of the compressed fuel, which was intended to power them on their flight from opinion to knowledge.

Fifteen, that's the age when the only world event that counts is whatever mood you're in that day.

Se tua mão é motivo de escândalo, corta-a; afirmativa enérgica que seria um absurdo se tomada ao pé da letra. Significa, simplesmente, a necessidade de destruir em si todas as causas de escândalo,

De que lhe serve, finalmente, humilhar-se diante de Deus, se, perante os homens, conserva o seu orgulho?

pois é preciso mais coragem para vencer a si mesmo do que para vencer aos outros.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

our greatest threat today is not a secular culture, or a progressive ideology, or another nation in the world. The greatest threat to our future is what's within the hearts of those of us who imagine ourselves to be Christ-followers.

I'm not crazy, but several of my other personalities are.

Know yourself who you are, Know your inner potentials, motivations and purposes, Know what blocks you.