Quotes about Introspection
I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.
— JM Coetzee
The biggest battle in life is with yourself.
— Dennis Prager
Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.
— John Maxwell
Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
— Margaret Atwood
Make sure you pay attention to what's right with your life, not just what's wrong.
— Norman Vincent Peale
We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside
— Richard Paul Evans
Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.
— CS Lewis
I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.
— CS Lewis
The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)
— Carl Jung
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
— E Stanley Jones
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
— Earl Nightingale
Writing for enjoyment of expression- like music and painting,(and photography)- does not NEED an audience of more than one.
— Edith Schaeffer