425 Quotes About Introspection

There is a goodness in the world that got me through, that taught me it's important to know who you are.

Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia.

What you give meaning to is what causes your emotion. Before you react know why you are giving something so much energy or fear. When you begin to understand why you give things meaning you can begin to change how you react and why you do what you do.

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.

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

People see the cleverness of nature and suppose it's the cleverness of the animal itself but it was obvious to me that each and every segment of the animal isn't aware. How much I'd hate to live totally unaware of myself, I thought. What would be the point of living, of existing, if you weren't ever to know about it? I looked at the Fox Moth and pitied it, poor unconscious creature. But then, I supposed, at least it wouldn't be disappointed. It would never find out.

My mind flits around like that, darts and dives and twitches at times, and other times perches immobile, faintly ruffling in the breeze.

Black Friday doesn’t even cover love and happiness. They come from within and outside is without without the former.

Like a house that has a home and a river that flows, so does love become when you open you4 heart, even when the lights go out or the flow encounters rocks.