Quotes About Introspection

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life.

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

There's something to be said about sitting in front of the TV and being removed from your own life and just pushed into another one.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.

Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.