Quotes About Introspection

To find, you have to seek. If you have lost your life direction, you probably won't find it between drinks at the local bar. Give yourself a break some time and space to examine what counts for you.

If we are honest with ourselves, we can list almost everything that's ever happened to us - and see how we helped create it.

We're all twisted messes inside. What matters is how we manifest our actions on the surface.

I'm still not ready to throw away my moral compass, even if I can't read it.

The problem is that monsters rarely see themselves that way.

She wanted to be like you." Be like me? A socially ignorant bystander to the world?

understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty.

Tell me something so that when you look your god in the eye, you can convince yourself you're a good man.

I understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty.

This is what scares me—the idea of becoming a monster without ever realizing it.

meal together, their internal lives far more interesting than the ones they share with each other.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. —Alfred Russel Wallace Faking my own death is

No matter how rich, powerful and attractive you might be, everyone at one point or another in their lives asks the same question. "Why me God?

I have learned much over the last years. From now on I am going to own myself and be true to myself. I no longer want to live someone else's idea of what and who I should be. 'I am going to be me.

more unselfish than I had been. What was I doing now? Was I finally overcoming that? Were my needs demanding to be addressed, no matter what the potential risk? Was it my time? Did all adulterers go through a similar self-analysis or didn't they give it a second thought? It was certainly easier not to think about it. Could I do that? Could I avoid imagining Kelly's reaction when or if she found out?

Right from the beginning, I had the sense that whenever he was trying to convince Pin of something, he was really trying to convince himself.

Did this happen because of something I did or said?' 'No, nothing specific. If I had to give an answer, it's everything.' 'Everything?' 'Everything about my life, Ronnie. Being with him makes me feel better about myself. I'm sorry. That's how it is.

The man himself.

Take a holiday?' 'Find a reason to spend time on your own; only you won't be on your own. There must be one place you'd like to go. It doesn't have to be far away. There's a lot of static around you here. You need a chance to pause, take some deep breaths, so you can think better about the things you're doing and the things you want.' 'Maybe,

I found myself staring at him and trying to remember if he ever said anything original. How many women look at their husband one day and wonder what in hell it was that made them want to be with him for a lifetime? Didn't they realize what it meant to spend day in and day out with the same man, hear the same phrases, see the same expressions and realize the same emotions? Was I being unfair?

Perhaps he often thought the same things about me, but was never obvious about it. Why couldn't it be that I was very different now from the girl he had first dated and it wasn't entirely his fault? I was hard in places where I had been soft. I was too cynical and certainly too critical now. I was sure that, at least once a day, he probably looked at me with disappointment and had his second thoughts, too. Or maybe it wasn't anyone's fault; it just was.

You've got to be a prose professional, get out of bed every morning and say, what is pressing on my nerves? You've got to come out of your trap every morning life you are equal to your times.

Sometimes people close a door because they're trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

I am arrogant,' he once said of himself in a perceptive piece of self-analysis, 'but not conceited.