Quotes About Introspection

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

What kind of suicide is it to kill in the world what you find in yourself?

Our knowledge about ourselves is our least reliable knowledge. Yet, so thoroughly do we ordinarily champion our own cause that it is acknowledged effective to believe that a person who deems it impossible to any further champion his/her own cause must be guilty.

For the first time in a long while, he looked down and saw his hands. If you have had this experience, you'll know just what I mean.

I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don't need to borrow yours.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

All his knowledge came from within.

But I don't feel the need to be famous.

From now on the subject says: "Hullo object!" "I destroyed you.

Have you made your selections?" Um, yeah, Gray thought. I'll have the total body meltdown with a side of what-the-hell-was-I-thinking. She, evidently, will be having the sex-goddess pot pie.

It is a fine thing, to set your sights on crystal towers and golden thrones," Hans Peter said quietly. "But first you had better see what lurks within those towers, and what sits on those thrones.

You can look back now and see how you should have known, but you were focusing on the facts instead of the feeling.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

her dearest friends were like dreams she had woken from. How had she missed so much?

She will rue her lack of curiosity, her ability to see things only as she wanted to, for the rest of her life.

When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago ' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.

I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.

I told myself, Eventually, you'll get it together. There was always a later. Soon the kids will notice, I worried. I never grew up with alcohol in the house, and we had so much. If the kids started questioning us about why, I wouldn't have the answer. Because I didn't know why we had so much alcohol. Except that our house was always the party house for all our friends. When the kids notice, I promised myself, I'd stop.

Who was I if I had no one to blame for my life but myself?

Owning my faults is an easy thing for me. Learning from those realizations and breaking the cycle of making the same choices, that's the work.

We need to own our weakness, our hurt, our pain, and say it out loud so that we can name what is coming up and why. You deserve it. You deserve to feel the heartbreak and the pain so that once and for all you stop holding yourself back from feeling whatever it is you've tried to mask. No, it's not easy but you are worth the work.

Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead to somewhere.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

When you look hard enough and long enough at your own face, everything about it starts to seem hideous.