Quotes About Introspection

As they become aware of how much time and energy they spend trying to garner approval, they can begin living an inside-out kind of life. This means, rather than focusing outward for acceptance and approval, they turn inward. In doing so, they can begin asking themselves the important questions: "What do I want," "What feels right to me," "What would make me happy?

I am billionaire bold bright omnipotent lively determined to go within to win opening my omnific eyes to realize wisdom innovation naturalizes… My cascading flow of financial love lavishly streams gold bars as I realize gold is intrinsic wealth as my intuitive imagination is my intrinsic innovations…

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

i go deeper into my head

But there's one problem that you have to solve if you're to go on profiting from books, and books won't help you much to solve it [,,,] The problem of finding someone, even one single person, you can endure life with. To me it's acute.

Though it may not be a suitable comment for even this confidential record, I thought, by no means for the first time in such surroundings, what an odd way it was for people of opposite sexes to spend the evening, when, after all, there was nothing ahead that any of us could be sure of but infirmity, illness, and death.

One had to dispel practicality. Then something else could be heard – if one was lucky, if the sun was shining, if the paths were well made, if one wore the right garments: and if one made no attempt at definition or popularisation.

Thus reinforced, they spent the noonday hours spinning dreams like cobwebs, and dodging demands like nets.

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one thing only, and so, as he believes, at peace with the world and with himself.

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

Always remember; wherever you go; there you are!

Detached analysis has a place—but, in the end, you've got to speak from the heart and pose the question of truth.)

Halfway through my steak I caught sight of myself in the mirror behind the bar. I looked like someone who ought to eat alone. I didn't look in the mirror again.

Flowers, like cats, were too involved in their own intricate magnificence to minister to her self-love.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.