Quotes About Introspection

We're constantly, as human beings, trying to understand why we do what we do and how we got to wherever we find ourselves today. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to look back and go, 'I can't believe I spent one day with that person, much less two years.'

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

I try to look at every role the same way, regardless of whether the character is real or the character is a fantasy. I always start from myself, because you have to know yourself first.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Sometimes you've just got to sit down, whether you're in the hotel room or on your couch at home, and really just appreciate what's going on around you.

The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.

When something's really significant, whether it's good, bad, ugly, I like being able to look back at a moment in time that was high-emotion. Whenever I'm crying I like, weirdly, to document it.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.

We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.