Quotes about Introspection
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...
— Victor Hugo
That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.
— DH Lawrence
You can't run away from yourself.
— Bob Marley
You can't run away from yourself.
— Bob Marley
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.
— St. John Chrysostom
People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
— JC Ryle
We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are.
— Joyce Meyer
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
— Vernon Howard
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
— St. Augustine
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love your silences, they are like mine.
— Anais Nin