Quotes About Introspection

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

There are no take-backs—just as in life. You must think before you move.

Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.