Quotes About Introspection

7. LOVE YOURSELF More than you love your drama.

And if we just stopped by for the occasional visits to the future and past, that would be one thing, but the amount of time we spend chewing on junk-food thoughts about what-ifs and how-comes-- Lawd help us!

Watch your words. And everyone else's.

To fear or not to fear, that is the question.

I realize I'm making it sound like we're all crazy, but that's because we kind of are.

Look at your life and see where you're letting yourself down.

Don't take failure personally. Get your ego out of it and your curiosity into it. Approach failure with an attitude of Hmmm, I wonder why that happened? Was there something I could have done differently?

The person you spend the most time with affects you the most. And the person you spend the most time with is . . . you. Hence, what you tell yourself on a regular basis is muy importante.

We spend the vast majority of our time moving at full speed ahead, both physically and mentally, and we literally bulldoze over the very answers we're seeking because they can't be heard above the din.

You have all the answers inside of you

everyone is living in their own self-created illusion

Your external world is a mirror of your internal world.

We have no freakin' idea what we're even doing here.

Every night before you go to bed, review your day and either write down or mentally note ten things you can be grateful for in your life. These

I'm assuming if you're reading this that there are some areas of your life that aren't looking so good either.

One of the best ways to blast past the noise in our brains and discover what's going on underneath is through meditation. Sitting in purposeful silence.

Another revealing exercise is visualization.

Drama dies without an audience

I think, perhaps, that I begin to understand how much I do not know.

You are such a young and childish country, believing that one can better understand the injuries of the past by wallowing in them and analyzing their causes. You do not know enough to understand that the only way to heal a wound is to leave it alone. To let sleeping dogs lie, as it were, rather than enthusiastically kicking them as

when you found yourself alive at the end of it, you were no longer sure whether that was a good thing.

Each spring the robins nesting in our cherry tree attack the side mirror of our car as if it were a rival, pecking furiously at their own reflections while streaking the door with guano. But who among us hasn't been toppled by our vanity or made an enemy of our own image?

Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all of the sh-t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self.

Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. Even if it's 98 percent the other person's fault, it's 2 percent yours.... You can only clean up your side of the street.