Quotes About Introspection

I found him most of the time grave-faced, staring ahead of him, and eating frugally.

And then there are many who lead the life of duplicity, not realizing that as they disguise themselves away from others, more they drift away from themselves. It's a poetic justice that the web of deceit and duplicity they begin to weave inside out, thus always turns around to return home outside in.

Beauty, Fame, Power and Wealth are all fickle and faithless. Like an unfaithful lover, they take you to the greatest heights of ecstasy; and then drop you from the cliff with everlasting agony. Never get swayed by their charms, my friend

Don't follow the Masses, because sometimes the M is silent.

Magnanimus, et dimitte hostes, si oblitus sui actus.

One of the interesting dichotomies of life is that you have to turn away from the world, in order to understand it better.

Pendant les années de l'adolescence, nous obtenons irrité par beaucoup de choses (presque tout) trop tôt et trop souvent. Que nous grandissons, nous nous rendons compte que seuls ces choses nous qui nous ressemblent ou qui sont une partie de nous dérangent. Les choses qui ne font pas partie d'entre nous ne nous affectent .... plus nous nous rendons compte de cette dichotomie, plus nous nous rapprochons de nous-mêmes.

Rara vez vemos el mundo tal como es; pero a menudo vemos el mundo tal como somos.

Sie sehen immer die Welt, wie Sie sind. Wenn Sie etwas nicht gefällt, ist es wahrscheinlich, weil es den Teil von dir, dass Ihnen am wenigsten repräsentiert. Das ist genau das, warum die Welt zu verstehen, müssen Sie zuerst von ihr weg, und dann suchen Sie tiefer in, tief in sich selbst.

The only way to find your self is to first lose yourself. Lose yourself to all worldly affairs, immerse yourself in the deepest oceans of material world - until the special moment of awakening, a pre-destined call that everyone receives at some stage in life. From that moment onwards, onsets the process of self-realization and your journey on the path to illumination. And thus you find your self, only after losing yourself in the jungle of materialistic world.

The only way you may be able to understand the world, is by turning away from her.....and that's a perplexing paradox!

We often hate or ridicule something that we believe to represent an integral part of our selves, our own character that we dislike internally. It's a dichotomy that we can't and won't hate anything that is truly outside our element. We're surely our own worst critics.

We seldom see the world as it is; but we often see the world as we are.

You always see the world as you are. If you don't like something, it's probably because it represents the part of you that you dislike most. If you want to understand the world, you must first turn away from her, and then look deep inside within your Self - to be in sync with the world, and to be in perfect harmony with life.

You can search for the meaning of life, as much as you can. You will never find it, because you're the one who is meant to define it.

You see in the world nothing but the reflection of what's in your heart.

You would think it strange of two people who conversed every day for forty or fifty years, but all this while did not know one another; yet this is the case between us and our souls; we live a long time in this world but are strangers to ourselves.

Did I go out of my way looking for trouble, you ask. Well, not exactly. Perhaps it was the inner voice that warned me that someday I would write it all down, so it better be entertaining.

I am wandering aimlessly in this labyrinth of memories.

But now I have re-discovered boredom, where I can fight 'what next' with nothing.

The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?" "Wouldn't I know which one I was?" "Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

Valkyrie dialed Skulduggery's number and he picked up. 'Hey,' she said, 'It's me.' Skulduggery paused. 'No it's not. If it were me, then I'd be talking to myself, and I don't do that any more. I certainly don't RING myself. That's one of the first signs of madness, and if it's not, it should be.' She sighed. 'Are you finished talking nonsense?' 'I haven't talked nonsense all morning. I miss it.

If you can't stand to be alone with your thoughts, maybe there's something wrong with your thoughts.

The greatest enemy we can face is ourselves, and the greatest battle is against the darkness within.