introspection

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

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.

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

Introspection precedes constructive criticism.Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun.

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

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.

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.

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.

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