Quotes about Introspection

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.

It's impossible to remain angry or blame other people for problems in your life when you are saying , I am responsible.

You are a "choosing organism." You are constantly making choices, one way or the other. Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities. At each moment, you choose what is more important or of higher value to you over what is less important or of lesser value.

Well, most of the time I do what feels right. But I admit there are times when I give in to my ego. Sometimes the rationalizations are so good that it's easy to sidestep what's right. But eventually you do always realize if you haven't been true to yourself. There's that tiny niggling but persistent voice at the back of your head that is not very easy to ignore for long.

I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.

When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it.