Quotes About Introspection

The eye that looks in on us and the eye that looks out from us is not the same eye.

Rituals do not always involve words, occasions, officials, or an audience. Rituals are often silent, solitary, and self-contained. The

What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it.

Alla fine, dopo aver lottato contro tutto ciò che avrei dovuto fare diversamente, se avessi saputo allora quello che so adesso, posso dare finalmente una risposta al seguente quesito: Se potessi rivivere daccapo la tua vita, cosa faresti? Dopo un'attenta riflessione sono giunto alla conclusione che rifarei tutto quello che ho fatto.

If you asked me what Uncle Vanya is about, I would say about as much as I can take.

Become who you are by learning who you are.

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

But the greatest battle of all is with yourself—your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end. You must declare unceasing war on yourself.

As Gracián said, "The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

Too much respect for other people's wisdom will make you depreciate your own.

You must be the mirror, training your mind to try to see yourself as others see you.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like. —Anton Chekhov

Learn to question yourself: Why this anger or resentment? Where does this incessant need for attention come from? Under such scrutiny, your emotions will lose their hold on you. You will begin to think for yourself instead of reacting to what others give you.

We want to learn the lesson and not repeat the experience. But in truth, we do not like to look too closely at what we did; our introspection is limited. Our natural response is to blame others, circumstances, or a momentary lapse of judgment.

Not to become someone else, but to be more thoroughly yourself.

What if we could find out what causes us to lie about who we are, or to inadvertently push people away?

As Xenophon said, your obstacles are not rivers or mountains or other people; your obstacle is yourself. If you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, you have only yourself to blame.

We are all self-absorbed, locked in our own worlds. It is a therapeutic and liberating experience to be drawn outside ourselves and into the world of another.

If you are observing someone you naturally dislike, or who reminds you of someone unpleasant in your past, you will tend to see almost any cue as unfriendly or hostile. You will do the opposite for people you like. In these exercises you must strive to subtract your personal preferences and prejudices about people.

Confidence is important, but if it is not based on a realistic appraisal of who you are, it is mere grandiosity and smugness.

As Xenophon said, your obstacles are not rivers or mountains or other people; your obstacle is yourself. If you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, you have only

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. —LEONARDO DA VINCI In

In knowing yourself, you accept your limits. You are simply one person among many in the world, and not naturally superior to anyone.