Quotes About Introspection

Denn du bist du Und kannst dir selber nicht entflien. Leg dich in deine Hände.

Denn du bist du Und kannst dir selber nicht entfliehn. Leg dich in deine Hände.

If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way.

When you are alone, you find out who you are capable of being.

Her grandson Robert Seton bears out her stark intention, 'She occasionally had her fits of melancholy and one in particular, when about eighteen she so far forgot herself at a time of unusual despondency as to entertain the wicked purpose of self-destruction.

If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?

I looked at her from the corner of my eye. Some people are hard to imagine as children.

i hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?

Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself

When you're going through a tough spell, it's easy to think that's all your life is about. You forget the good things, forget the quiet places. But they're always inside of us and we can pull them up when we need to set ourselves right.

Here I was - my body heading to one place, my heart stuck in another. My mind's got questions and no answers.

Rather than thinking in terms of good and bad, it is more helpful to think in terms of conscious and unconscious, aware, and unaware.

October is a time to take stock of our deepest held beliefs.

October is a month of introspection and retrospection, of taking stock.

We will think deeply about our values, our relationships, our motivation and our mind-habits. We will take responsibility for living our lives with awareness and love.

Carl Jung: "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

For ten years I was alone, I filled the days with work, with the children, and with a few good friends. And I made a friend of myself. To have a friend you have to be one. You have to learn to like yourself—which usually means getting over a few had habits. I'm sure that I grew a little wiser, and I learned something about faith.

These questions do not call for the discovery of data; they call for the contemplation of possibility.

The historian Arnold Toynbee says of it, "The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self

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 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

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.