Quotes About Introspection

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

When you find that your life is out of alignment with your grandest idea of yourself, seek to change it.

But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

Seek to create change in your life not because something is 'wrong' ? but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of 'who you are'.

The most difficult thing for people to do is hear their own soul.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

No I'm not saying I'm the nicest I just life like it.

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.