Quotes about Introspection
There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
— Marilyn Monroe
Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment. The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.
— Bob Marley
The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.
— Bob Marley
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.
— John Updike
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
— Henry David Thoreau
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
— James Allen
I am only human, although I regret it.
— Mark Twain
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
— Thomas Merton
I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
— Joseph Campbell
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
— Albert Einstein
...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.
— Paulo Coelho