Quotes about Introspection

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

We are in the habit of contention—against the world, against each other, against ourselves. It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.

Look in and see him looking out. He is not always quiet, but there have been times when happiness has come to him, unasked, like the stillness on the water that holds the evening clear while it subsides - and he let go what he was not.