Quotes about Introspection

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you were you in his place. This is the touchstone of true reason.

True love brings up everything you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Human beings are curious, and especially curious about other human beings.

False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.

It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And as he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of discovering the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

The cause of all power, as of all weakness, is within; the secret of all happiness as of all misery is likewise within.

Taking inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.