Quotes About Introspection

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

wondering what sort of person would live in a place like this,

I felt a subtle sense of disappointment as I left the morgue.

We're conduits for the universe's desire to think about itself.

I think you get so involved in the lives of the people you write about so you can avoid dealing with your own," she said.

Nothing out there tells us how we must live: we and we alone can now with confidence knowingly trust our own hearts, and admit that we do and must invent our own ethics.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

Kierkegaard's advice. He suggested that we become subjective toward others and objective toward ourselves. That is, when we judge the actions of others, we should put ourselves in their place, trying to understand how they see themselves and their world. And when we judge ourselves, we should see ourselves as others see us, overcoming the ease with which we find extenuating circumstances for ourselves.

Self-understanding is the prelude to transformation, to moving beyond the ego and all that makes up what is called "false personality.

everyone wants insight into others, few people are as willing to look so intently at themselves.

In the artist of all kinds I think one can detect an inherent dilemma, which belongs to the co-existence of two trends, the urgent need to communicate and the still more urgent need not to be found....

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

I don't know what the hell I was doing, all right?! I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore. And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

Maybe, Keller thinks, I've become too used to solitude. Maybe I like it too much.

Pablo Mora has one of those hangovers where you see yourself in the mirror and think you look familiar.

At least, at last, tell yourself the truth. You know exactly how you got here. Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn't true.

mirrors reveal so little