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Quotes about Introspection

You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for yourself; you decide what the meaning of your life is to be. People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life--there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be.
— Joseph Campbell
The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.
— AA Milne
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.
— AA Milne
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
— AA Milne
On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.
— AA Milne
She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.
— AA Milne
And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: "There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.
— AA Milne
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
— Abraham Lincoln
I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.
— Stephen Colbert
I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.
— Stephen Colbert
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.
— Pope Benedict XVI