Quotes about Introspection
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
But waking up is ultimately something that each one of us can only do for ourselves. When it comes down to it, wherever you go, there you are
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
When you begin to question the narrative of yourself and inquire as to who is even doing all of this talking inside your own head, you may come to realize that you have no idea!
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Instead, we are living inside our own little narrative bubble of the moment, frequently misattributing cause and effect and therefore completely imprisoned in thoughts and emotions that are both inaccurate and misguided.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
— Jonathan Edwards
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
— Joseph Addison