Quotes About Introspection

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?

What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.

There are days when you seek the company of your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.