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Quotes About Introspection

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.
~ Paulo Coelho
You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
~ Peter Garrett
The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.
~ Polly Berrien Berends
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
~ Amy Tan
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
~ Anais Nin
Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
~ Ang Lee
I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.
~ Anne Truitt
It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.
~ Annie Dillard
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.
~ Burl Ives
I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
~ Calvin Harris
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
~ Charles Bukowski
Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.
~ Charles Frazier
In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.
~ Christopher Hitchens
We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart.
~ Debbie Ford
I have a full life off the road. I was never in it just for the money or the career. That's why I'm comfortable with myself. I know who I am out of the spotlight.
~ Dion DiMucci
Oh my god what am I doing with my life?
~ El-P
I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.
~ Joni Mitchell
I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.
~ Lee Pace
Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.
~ Lizz Winstead
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.
~ Luigi Pirandello
I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett