Quotes About Introspection

Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?"

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.