Quotes About Introspection

I closed the door forever on idealism and the essential goodness of human nature, and I walked to the Greyhound bus station by the same path that I had taken on my arrival.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw...

It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

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The trouble is, I'm writer, and most writers are terrible nosey parkers.

The young man clasped his hands together tight on his lap, hugging himself with his elbows. It seemed as though suddenly he was feeling very cold.

When I look far enough inside of you, I'll find me. When I look far enough inside me, I'll find you.

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You dance with the Bible, but you also interrogate it. You challenge it, question it, poke it, probe it. You let it get under your skin. We read it, and we let it read us, and then we turn the gem, again, and again, and again, seeing something new over and over and over again . . .

When we spent a day being fully present, we quickly discovered how much of the rest of our lives we weren't fully present.

Sabbath forces you to listen to your life. Sabbath is a day when you are fully present to your pain, your stress, your worry, your fear. Sabbath is when you let whatever you've pushed down rise to the surface. Sabbath is a day when things that are broken get fixed, when things within you that have torn are mended.

Now what? I realize now that those two words were forming a prayer. Now what? In a visceral way, prayer is naming what matters to you. Now what? is what mattered to me.

It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

And now here's the twist, the mystery, the unexpected truth about admitting that takes us back to the counterintuitive power of gospel: When you come to the end of yourself, you are at that exact moment in the kind of place where you can fully experience the God who is for you.

Why do we do the things that we do?

When you do crash and burn, ask yourself lots of questions about whatever it is that happened: What can you learn here? How will you see things differently moving forward? Why did I do that? leads to, What have I learned? leads to, How will I do it differently in the future?

He was a deep thinker from an early age; it was a problem that would plague him throughout his life - he could be overly sensitive and prone to thinking about things too much.

The worrying thing is that he was well aware of his slide, but didn't seem to want — or be able — to do anything to help it.

He would struggle with finding any value in himself and would despair at how he perceived the rest of humanity to be acting.

Even with my limited self-awareness

What we do with our attention, in short, is at the heart of what makes us human.

A significant moment deserves a considered prelude. Be ready.