Quotes about Introspection

A wise person seeks to make peace with the truth, especially when it's personal and even when it hurts.

What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

So how does one become a person whom other people want to be around? Let me make a suggestion. Ask yourself this question every day: 'What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

Every decision you ever made — the best ones and the worst ones — were, at their base, merely a product of your thinking at that time.

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need a reference point. Similarly, you can't get to where you want to be in life until you are willing to admit where you are to begin with. Self-deception makes that next to impossible.

Nobody matures past his or her need for prayer and meditation.

Personal shortcomings is often rooted in some sort of insecurity. This can be easy to see in others but next to impossible to see in ourselves. It takes a certain amount of personal security to admit weakness.

Most of us want to be proven right more than we want to know what's true. We aren't on truth quests. We're on confirmation quests.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.