Quotes About Introspection

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

Even our best qualities can turn against us, and when they do we are usually the last to know.

I have a life. A real one. And not all of it is with you.

child, he had learned the gift of watchful silence.

Keep a journal of disappointments, failures, and self-destructive actions. It's important to write this down because these are the kinds of things your self-serving bias will want to forget or minimize.

We tend to assume that our hearts are pure, that we usually do the right thing, that we're better than average in almost every way you can imagine. Of course this is statistically impossible; it's just a comforting delusion. And

Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

We all got things under our skin. Everybody does. Like a glass sliver. Can't see nothin' there, but it works its way in deeper and gets to festerin' and hurts so that we're ready to just cut the whole thing out.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.

I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.

what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?

Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

Sometimes, it's only in walking the path that we discover why we are walking at all.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.

what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves. Elise

Ostin suddenly nodded. "Oh, I get it. It's payback. Let her stew in her own juices. Awesome.

Nowhere is our vision more distorted than when we turn it on ourselves.