Quotes about Introspection

Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Either you're going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.