Quotes about Introspection
Part of getting over pain and hurt doesn't always mean we have to talk about it. Sometimes it is wiser to keep our thoughts to ourselves. We forget how powerful words can be.
— Rachel Hauck
The Lord and I aren't exactly on speaking terms.
— Rachel Hauck
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson