Quotes about Introspection

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.