Quotes about Introspection
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
— Carl Jung
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
— Virginia Woolf
No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big.
— Don Cheadle
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
— Thomas a Kempis
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
— Jimmy Carter
Being in closer-than-usual contact with the actual workings of your mind can lead you to confront issues with a new and perhaps unsettling honesty.
— Robert Wright
I consider myself an average man except for the fact that I consider myself an average man.
— Robert Wright
Do not force me to look any longer at what I have become. Tell me instead what is to come.
— Robin Jones Gunn
If you feel far from God, guess who moved?
— Robin Jones Gunn
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
— Soren Kierkegaard
To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I opened my eyes and saw the real world, and I began to laugh, and i haven't stopped since.
— Soren Kierkegaard