Quotes About Introspection

I think good art does come from a dark place.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

Rick I guess you're not happy so which one are you

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

Judge not lest ye be judged you fat motherfucker

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.

O saisons, ô châteaux, Quelle âme est sans défauts ?

I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?

Against Self-Pity It gets you nowhere but deeper into your own shit--pure misery a luxury one never learns to enjoy.

There is not going to be any change unless we can begin to talk about any little fear, any little hatred, any little bias that we might have and to admit that all human beings have them.

The house, shut up like a pocket watch, those tight hearts breathing inside— she could never invent them.

Where ever I go, there I am. Drunk.

every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.

it encourages its readers to engage in similar acts of self-scrutiny.

I have learned that silence is a way of hearing the voices within and of exploring unexpressed and nascent thoughts and feelings.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

After you've dated someone it should be legal to stamp them with what's wrong with them, so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch.

How fine to be willing to admit that one does not know what one does not know, instead of spewing out such nonsense and disgusting oneself!' (Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods).