Quotes about Introspection
Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have — and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.
— Philip Appleman
If we wish to be good, we must first believe that we are bad.
— Philip Schaff
If we wish to be good, we must first believe that we are bad.
— Philip Schaff
If we wish to be good, we must first believe that we are bad.
— Philip Schaff
Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
— Phillips Brooks
We feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath the thing we are.
— Phillips Brooks
My earlier books, 'The Oath,' 'This Present Darkness' were pretty straight adventure. 'The Visitation' is like a deeper book, more thought-provoking. It probes at character more.
— Frank Peretti
We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.
— Maxine Peake
I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And I always say, 'No. No, all I ever write about is being alone, and sometimes that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.'
— Shonda Rhimes
I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.
— Shonda Rhimes
It is simply a practical way to be more in touch with the fullness of your being through a systematic process of self-observation, self-inquiry, and mindful action.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn