Quotes about Introspection
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
— St. Basil
Being the smartest person in the room I think can be very lonely.
— Lindsey Morgan
The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
— Henri Nouwen
The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.
— Henry David Thoreau
The life of the soul is incalculable.
— Margaret Fuller
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
— Margaret Atwood
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
— Margaret Atwood
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
— Margaret Atwood
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.
— CS Lewis
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
— Helen Keller
It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world
— Eleanor Roosevelt