Quotes About Introspection

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let's dig deep.'

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

I want to make a poem of my life.

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

Of course I have a personal life.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.