Quotes about Introspection
I am prepared to show you that you have resources and a character naturally strong and resilient; show me in return what grounds you have for being peevish and malcontent.
— Epictetus
If you are praised by others, be skeptical of yourself. For it is no easy feat to hold onto your inner harmony while collecting accolades.
— Epictetus
If you are praised by others, be skeptical of yourself. For it is no easy feat to hold onto your inner harmony while collecting accolades.
— Epictetus
When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.
— Epictetus
want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
— Erica Jong
I am nailed to the cross of my imagination.
— Erica Jong
I am nailed to the cross of my imagination.
— Erica Jong
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.
— Anais Nin
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
— Andrew Carnegie
'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.
— Kate Burton
Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.
— Mark Batterson
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
— Vance Havner