Quotes About Introspection

Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

We are the hero of our own story.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

I don't write about my life in my column.

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life.

I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.