Quotes about Introspection
With these startling honesties glinting up at us from history's broken mirror, it strikes me that this is worth shouting from the rooftops: We could be wrong this time, again. The enemy may not be exactly what we think. It may be a force that resides in many quarters, including inside our skin, in our very words, the questions we frame, the things we love most, the things we can't live without. Our greatest dread may be our salvation.
— Barbara Kingsolver
With these startling honesties glinting up at us from history's broken mirror, it strikes me that this is worth shouting from the rooftops: We could be wrong this time, again. The enemy may not be exactly what we think. It may be a force that resides in many quarters, including inside our skin, in our very words, the questions we frame, the things we love most, the things we can't live without. Our greatest dread may be our salvation.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It is in his absence I prosper.
— Barbara Kingsolver
if you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If the grown-up version of me could have one chance at walking backwards into this story, part of me wishes I could sit down on the back pew with that pissed-off kid in his overly tight church clothes and Darkhawk attitude, and tell him: You think you're giant but you are such a small speck in the screwed-up world. This is not about you.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Forgive me, Dellarobia. It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Some people say religion is finding yourself, and some people say it's losing yourself in a crowd.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
— Stephen Covey
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
— Stephen Covey
Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.
— Stephen Covey
We can't go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.
— Stephen Covey