Quotes about Introspection
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them." "Yes," said Harriet, "but I am one of them. I disconcert myself very much. I never know what I do feel." "I don't think that matters, provided one doesn't try to persuade one's self into appropriate feelings.
— Dorothy Sayers
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.
— Dorothy Sayers
his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification.
— Dorothy Sayers
Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be." CHAPTER XVI From noise of scare-fires rest ye free, From Murders Benedicite.
— Dorothy Sayers
Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
— Alain de Botton
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
— Alain de Botton
way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Ps. 139:23—24)? If you go on through life blindly confident but
— Alan Redpath
It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it.
— Holly Hunter
When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.
— Mother Angelica
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
— Epictetus
In the darkest of nights, there is only one thing on your mind--should I be required to stand before the Almighty, will I find myself in His favor?
— Rachel Hauck
John had no desire to move but to just be. The rain seemed to do more than water the earth tonight. It seemed to water him.
— Rachel Hauck