Quotes about Introspection

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.

Forgive me, Dellarobia. It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.

Some people say religion is finding yourself, and some people say it's losing yourself in a crowd.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

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.

Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.

We can't go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.

In the last analysis, as Marilyn Ferguson observed, "No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.

Inside-out means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self—with your paradigms, your character, and your motives.

Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.

There's no way to go for a Win in our own lives if we don't even know, in a deep sense, what constitutes a Win—what is, in fact, harmonious with our innermost values.