Quotes About Introspection

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.

When you are introduced to the clarity inside of you, to the simplicity inside of you, to that beauty inside of you, the journey of life begins.

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

I didn't create thug life, I diagnosed it

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.