Top 86 Self Introspection Quotes
#1. We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#2. 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.
Eva Hoffman
#3. Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding.
Erin Meyer
#4. It's time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.
Sara Baume
#5. There's just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It's not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it's that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don't see what you wish to see - or glimpse something that you wish weren't there.
Dean Koontz
#6. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
John Ruskin
#7. That's exactly the good thing about the Injun life
you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'
which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks
Jim Fergus
#9. Life is one large process of creation: Self-Examination and introspection is simply to figure out what you want to create in this moment.
Matthew Donnelly
#10. Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.
Terence McKenna
#11. By not letting me turn you into something you're not, you've helped me be more of myself.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#12. To attempt to know myself 'apart' from God is to choose to know nothing more than 'a part' of myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first.
Michele Jennae
#15. I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.
Young-Ha Kim
#16. False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#17. 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!)
Chris Crutcher
#18. How we look at life depends on how we see ourselves.
Justin Young
#21. Most breakups are awful. But with compassion, attention, introspection, and intention they can become transforming, bringing you closer to alignment with your true self while preparing you for the next great adventure.
Randy Siegel
#22. Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.
Eric Maisel
#23. To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.
Jay Samit
#24. We gain knowledge about the interworking of our personal mind through observation of the external world and personal introspection. Contemplation requires a degree of stillness, the willingness to consider deep thoughts.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#25. To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#26. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
C. G. Jung
#27. That's because self discovery happens through experiences, not from introspection.
Sheena Hutchinson
#28. He believed that the secret of happiness was to concentrate on things outside oneself. Introspection and self-awareness were the enemies of contentment, and
James Runcie
#29. A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.
Marty Rubin
#30. The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.
Floriano Martins
#31. We might do well to take a look at what we've crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we've crammed into our hearts.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#32. 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.
Steve Goodier
#33. Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves.
Nicolas G. Janovsky
#34. Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges.
M.B. Dallocchio
#35. During self-reflection, the realization came that revolution begins within.
Amanda Mosher
#36. Sometimes I feel like one of those sliding tile puzzles. I just get so dang close to what I want to see in the mirror and who I want to be ... but then I have to completely jumble up the pieces to try to get even closer.
Erica Goros
#37. 3762
Hence the necessity of getting off the merry-go-round too figure out what is really going on and let your sad feelings tell their own sometimes weird, complex, and long-winded story.
Frederick Woolverton
#38. Look within,
There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru.
You are always Free.
There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.
H.W.L. Poonja
#39. In the New Testament, we don't find our gift through self-examination and introspection and then find ways to express it. Instead, we love one another, serve one another, help one another, and in so doing we see how God has equipped us to do so.
Russell D. Moore
#40. I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes
I am a glimpse, I am a sign, of someone I can be, someone I might
I am not one, I am not two, but I am a million things entwined
I am a piece, I am a slice, strung together by the yarns of time.
Sanober Khan
#41. The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.
Kamal Ravikant
#42. The journey towards your inner self is through Solitude!
Farheen Viquas
#43. Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self's relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#44. What does introspection mean? It means you're looking in the wrong direction.
Marty Rubin
#45. Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.
Soseki Natsume
#46. If you are anything like me, you do a lot of listening to yourself everyday.
C.J. Mahaney
#47. I can be changed by what happened to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou
#48. Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and the underworld, falls the Shadow.
Salman Rushdie
#49. If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#50. My friend ... care for your psyche ... know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves -Socrates
Socrates
#51. 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
#52. I don't live my life wondering how to live my life.
Marty Rubin
#53. A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. 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.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle.
#57. Don't stoop, don't stop & don't be tired in front of any circumstances; with continuous efforts & self introspection aim so high that shall take me to the top of the world
Vitthal Mane
#58. The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter's intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able to separate her identity from her daughter's, has the key to achieving the right balance.
Susan Shapiro Barash
#59. Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.
Madonna Ciccone
#60. I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
Hugh Laurie
#61. Success is not a distant dream,it is a reality for those who sweat to achieve it,enjoy sleepless nights, take calculative steps through the day,and with self introspection keeps it humble with a smile.Then success gets loud with the achiever's mouth shut,while the world celebrates one's victory.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#62. When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
Confucius
#63. The problem with introspection is that it has no end.
Philip K. Dick
#64. Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance
Romany Malco
#65. Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection - complex
Virginia Morell
#66. In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#67. Self-introspection is the way to improve any company, any marriage, any nation. And any job-hunt.
Richard N. Bolles
#68. Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
Bruce Barton
#69. Sometimes being overwhelmed by emotions can leave you speechless but even then it is important to identify the correct emotion.
Sam Owen
#70. Break from self rejection, try some introspection.
Henry Rollins
#71. It's fine to feel truer than others.
But it's much truer to fix our fault.
Toba Beta
#72. Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.
Joyce Rachelle
#74. But what am I going to see?
I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.
Stanislaw Lem
#75. Introspection and self-awareness were the enemies of contentment,
James Runcie
#76. By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
Caroline Knapp
#77. What great performers have achieved is the ability to avoid doing it automatically.
Geoff Colvin
#78. The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).
Richard Baxter
#79. Julie helped him to feel defined. He was Julie's boyfriend. Julie's fiance. Julie's provocation. He came into focus when he stood beside her, despite the fact that the person standing beside her was mostly not him.
Meg Rosoff
#80. Self- examination is essential if you want to heal and become whole. Through self-examination the Holy Spirit will show you what you need to change or deal with. Taking responsibility for your hurt and pain will lead to internal changes, character growth and needed personality changes.
Michael Barbarulo
#81. 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
#82. Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate the next change in paradigm for human thought.
Michael Persinger
#83. Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Lewis Carroll
#84. Life is the constant process of self-creation. We constantly make and remake our personal version of the self. Personal introspection is critical to ascertain who we want to become by ascertaining what traits we wish to eradicate and what qualities we wish to embody.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#86. My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
Virginia Woolf
