Introspection Quotes

Since love grows within you so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Without love benevolence becomes egotism.

Martin Luther King

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine it becomes more satisfying more refreshing more valuable more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Guard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without hesitation how to lose without regret how to acquire without meanness know how to replace in your heart by the happiness of those you love the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too.

Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Out of love you can speak with straight fury.

Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command His first command is this - "Man love thyself."

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Love is above all else the gift of oneself.

A heart that loves is always young.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

Accept the things To which fate binds you and Love the people with whom fate Brings you together But do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aurelius

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship tense and anxious groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began only I was without compass or sounding line and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul and rhe light of love shone on me in that very hour.

Love can be understood only "from the inside " as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Robert C. Solomon

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel for love is not ours to command.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

Anonymous

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?""No sir.""That bothers me.

Joe R. Lansdale

Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.

The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.

Bono

Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's own private world of nonresistance, overwhelmed, like creeping ivy, our desire to know worlds beyond it?

…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

Gail Carson Levine

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Graham Aitchison

We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.

If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

It's raining outside. How did you get here? And how did you get to be twenty-eight?

Austin Grossman

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

John D. MacDonald

There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.

Introspection precedes constructive criticism.Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun.

Toba Beta

How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.

Stephen Richards

In people like us, the craving is as strong as the craving for food or water, the yearning for touch or light or love. I was looking for something--a diversion, an occupation, an unwavering force--that would elevate me, that would lift me out of the melancholy dissection of my own interior geography that otherwise would have consumed me pitilessly, as it had my father. I wanted to fly above myself-- if only for a few hours--and look down in tranquility upon my life.

It was hard to understand a little and then walk away.

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Absence of questions is not proof of answers.

Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.

Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the first look? I haven't had enough desert yet.

During self-reflection, the realization came that revolution begins within.

Wisdom comes from introspection.

Debasish Mridha

Will therapy make you feel any better? Not if it's working.

Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.

He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.

Self-introspection is the way to improve any company, any marriage, any nation. And any job-hunt.

Richard N. Bolles

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.

It was an unfamiliar feeling, waking up with a place to go, a place I was actually beginning to comprehend and face without a sense of terror.More than that, I was even questioning the assumption that I was, in my bones, a scared and anxious and miserable person. It felt like the days were almost supernaturally good, that I could wake up without the usual wave of terror, that the days were admixed with some foreign substance dripping into them, some animating essence, like the dragonborn races of Endoria, dragonborn days. I felt like I'd stumbled on one of the open secrets of the world. Why hadn't I realized before that being a grown-up could be anything you wanted it to be?

Austin Grossman

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

I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last. That is what is strange - that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened. Without the interruptions, nourishing and maddening, this life would become arid. Yet I taste it fully only when I am alone here and "the house and I resume old conversations".

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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