Quotes About Introspection

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.