Quotes about Introspection

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.

Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what

How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: *was* I the same when I got up this morning?

Solitude is sometimes best society.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.