Introspection Quotes - Page 2

But darling yesterday I was a different person, today I see you for what you are.

Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.

What is reading but silent conversation.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.

…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself.

And here's the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty that others see clearly and you may hardly know exists. That is also part of the truth about you.

A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all - because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection.

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

True peace is not found in external circumstances, but within ones own heart.

Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.

What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring this question is a powerful exercise in meaning; what is the meaning of human existence?

Talking with Elaine like that, with no judgment from her or anything, seemed to bring my feelings more to the surface so I could look at them. I love times like that; you don't get many of them.
(Walker, in STOTAN!)