425 Quotes About Introspection

You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.

A mirror is fragile but not afraid of showing the truth.

I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

He had too much to think about. In the course of his long, useless marches he had sunk deeper and deeper into the tangle of his botched life as into a clump of brambles, and still he had found no meaning or consolation.

The purpose of your life is to be and to do. Who are you? What are you doing? These are fundamental questions if you want to find your path.

I am bored with these frantic cravings, tired of them and therefore myself, and contemptuous though tolerant of all my vast powers of self-pity and self-expressive misery.

It is hard to locate the right memories for a beginning: to decide which ones are relevant to the overall picture. We always take ourselves back to the start to try and find out why things happened; to try and force some blame into some day or some month or into some half-shaded memory.

Just like our mental well-being, the secret to a healthy and prospering business also lies in introspection.

I think the uncertainty of our lives is one such commonality that unites us all despite our varied difference.