Quotes about Introspection
When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.
— DH Lawrence
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
— George Eliot
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
— Walt Whitman
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...
— Victor Hugo
That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.
— DH Lawrence
You can't run away from yourself.
— Bob Marley
You can't run away from yourself.
— Bob Marley
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.
— St. John Chrysostom
People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
— JC Ryle
We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are.
— Joyce Meyer
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
— Vernon Howard