Quotes About Introspection

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

I don't take praise or criticism seriously.

I don't look for praise.

My father would tell me my defects but never praise me to my face. The good things about me he would only tell others when I wasn't around.

I definitely have to pray and spend a lot of time by myself when I can.

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.

I think it's important to talk to your inner thing. The purpose is to go over the decisions that will affect my life and others. I pray that I don't make my decisions based on ego.

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

When I was young, I really wanted to be a part of the end-of-year awards shows, but now that I'm actually there, it feels weird. I used to go to church and ended the year with a prayer, but now I spend it with people I'm not very familiar with at an award show, and I wonder if it's something I should be doing.

I'm not proud that, in my time, I've tried to harness the power of prayer to fit into a pair of jeans.

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

Prayer is so complicated.

There was a time in my life that I thought prayer did not matter either. There was a time earlier in my life where I did not give God a second thought.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

I don't think of myself as a preacher.

I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that.

I realized I needed to take more responsibility, be more mature, not to lose the ball in precarious areas. In past I was apathetic, didn't think too much.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes wrong, we barely give them thought. This seems strange to me. How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?