Quotes about Introspection

Your life is a reflection of the quality of the questions you ask yourself and others.

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

You learn more from your tears than your smiles.

just to break the silence. He always imagined that silence was somehow directed against him. Or that it was his fault.

Contending with fanaticism does not mean destroying all fanatics, but rather cautiously handling the little fanatic who hides, more or less, inside each of our souls. It also means ridiculing, just a little, our own convictions; being curious; and trying to take a peek, from time to time, not only through our neighbor's window but, more important, at the reality viewed from that window, which will necessarily be different from the one seen through our own.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

N-am avut puterea s? te înl?tur din viaÃ…£a mea când, biologic, planetar, emoÃ…£ional, metafizic, psihanalitic, ar fi trebuit.

Nothing searches and cleanses the heart like true prayer. It teaches one to ask such questions as these: Do I really desire what I pray for? Am I willing to cast out everything to make room for what God is prepared to give me? Is the prayer of my lips really the prayer of my life?

The only humility that is really ours is not the humility we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us and actively live in our ordinary conduct.

Each person must acknowledge the sins of which he himself is guilty.

In not granting an answer, the Father tells us that there is something wrong in our praying. He wants to teach us to discover it and confess it; He wants to educate us about true believing and prevailing prayer. He will only attain His objective when He brings us to see that we are to blame for the withholding of the answer - our aim, or our faith, or our life is not what it should be.

Let us learn the lesson: the highest holiness is the deepest humility.