Quotes About Introspection

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

All I know is that I do not know anything

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

I may make you feel but I can't make you think....your sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink.....

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

Winter is a time for going inward. For tending to the unseen.

Spend time in silence. Take time to get to know yourself and your genius in stillness.

Engage in a loving archaeological dig back to yourself. Let all that is not yours within you fall away until only your real nature remains.

It's pointless to focus on others, as we can only control ourselves. I set a high bar and then it is my own private race. No one knows I'm winning or losing but me.

I did not write love songs as a sixteen-year-old. I did not write about crushes or about mean girls. I wrote about my life—about the injustices and inequities and the search for answers and self-responsibility.

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.

They seemed disconnected, hollow somehow, deeply withdrawn.