Quotes about Introspection

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I've become. The one I can't make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.

Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.

we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which

What would I be singing, Vicky wondered,—if I sang out my moods?

there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.

We tend, today, to want to have a road map of exactly where we are going. We want to know whether or not we have succeeded in everything we do. It's all right to want to know—we wouldn't be human if we didn't—but we also have to understand that a lot of the time we aren't going to know.

You become what you think, not what others think of you.

You learn more from your tears than your smiles.