Quotes About Introspection

Jeffrey N. Gingold

Isn't it strange how most of us reach an age where we just fold up our imaginations and stuff them in our closets? I think I've learned more about you from these impossible dreams than from anything else you've said.

I am, I suppose, a mystic. I have never been at home in organized religion, but have had to find my own path and decipher my own truths. Without either Jung or alchemy, though, my efforts would have failed.

Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown.

Success," Honda said, "can be achieved only through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents one percent of your work, which results only from the ninety-nine percent that is called failure.

As she as she

The silence was so loud

Sin cuestionarte dónde has estado, nunca entenderás hacia dónde debes ir.

There was a lingering sadness about her that Elsa could never put her finger on.

Nothing," Elsa lied. It wasn't possible to put all she was thinking into words.

I am not as good as my ego suggests and not as bad as my conscience admonishes.

Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.

Dear Lord, keep my name out of the therapist's office.

Thank you, Facebook Quizzes, for helping me identify my Disney princess spirit, my old-person name, my mental disorder, and the color of my soul. All in one evening. Best, Ariel Harriet Schizophrenic Mauve.

Cloud and Townsend suggest two questions to regularly ask the closest people in your life: What do I do that draws you toward me? What do I do that pushes you away?

Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.

Some people are destined to be deep thinkers. I am not one of those people.

I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.

As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.

What other people think of you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

The people you surround yourself with are excellent mirrors for who you are and how much, or how little, you love yourself.

I can pretty much guarantee that every time you tearfully ask yourself the question, "WTF is my problem?!" the answer lies in some lame, limiting, and false subconscious belief that you've been dragging around without even realizing

When you don't investigate what's going on with your words, thoughts, and beliefs, you risk stumbling through life on autopilot.

constantly ask yourself "can I let this one go?" By becoming aware of what we do, we can investigate why we do it and then choose to keep it or drop it, instead of blindly reacting through habit.