Quotes About Introspection

Define yourself before others do.

Good writing is a mirror of the mind where readers can see themselves again and again.

Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think.

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

See yourself in the mirror of your mind to find yourself.

The mind is the source of infinite power; to find it we have to mine it.

The question is not who is going to forget me, but the question is, who is going to forgive me?

To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.

We often forget to love ourselves and wonder why nobody loves us.

What others think does not matter. What you think about you is what matters.

What you see with your eyes are transient and ephemeral, what you see through your heart is everlasting and eternal.

What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you.

Your mind is a mirror and you see yourself in it again and again.

There is no one I find as tiresome as myself. Talk about ubiquitous. It's so difficult to find someplace quiet apart from myself, hard to keep me out of the room for even a moment. I just keep following myself around wherever I go, monotonously chirping.

Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

I'm not hugely experienced with relationships, but I am hugely experienced with myself - and more than anything I value my piece of mind. I don't like going to sleep with knots in my stomach, or ruining the present by worrying about the future. In a life that is pretty complicated, I like to keep my own head space as simple as possible.

Maybe I should stop thinking so much, and start feeling. Maybe thinking is over-rated.

keep the conversation about identity going. This is the work of psychotherapy: to learn both to assume

I have spoken before about the "yes" and the "no" alive in every person who seeks therapy. Listening to Pearl I heard the following: Yes, I would like to confide in you. No, that would displace my loyal family. Yes, I want to get help. No, that would prove I needed it. Yes, I want to change my life. No, I don't. All the things I do and everything I am have taken me this far.

Mirror, mirror, shining bright, bring more clarity to my sight.

We late-lamented, resting here, Are mixed to human jam, And each to each exclaims in fear, 'I know not which I am!' " —Thomas Hardy, "The Levelled Churchyard," 1882

It's not so hard to figure out why I'm not sleeping. What I can't figure out is why everybody else is sleeping.

It was not like everyone had said. Not like being needed, or needing; not desperate; it did not whisper that I'd come to harm. I didn't lose my head. No, I was not going to leap from a great height and flap my wings. It was in fact the opposite of flying: it contained the wish to be toppled, to be on the floor, the ground, anywhere I might lie down. . . . On my back, and you on me.