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Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries

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

Introspection is always retrospection — Jean-Paul Sartre

She had no fear of the spotlight, only of the places it did not reach. — David Halberstam

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it. — Epictetus

Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you. — Soseki Natsume

The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either. — Brad Meltzer

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

A curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information. — C. D. Broad

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

Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers. — Harmony Korine

The world is a palace without bedsheets — Suchet Chaturvedi

How we look at life depends on how we see ourselves. — Justin Young

Take the time to think. Get into the regular habit of personal introspection. — Robin S. Sharma

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection. — Henry Adams

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
... live in the question. — Rainer Maria Rilke

But what am I going to see?
I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you. — Stanislaw Lem

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99). — Richard Baxter

The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research. — Hugh Downs

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

Introspection! I hate it! — Ethel Kennedy

It is good for society to have this introspection. — Jacques Verges

I don't live my life wondering how to live my life. — Marty Rubin

Sometimes being overwhelmed by emotions can leave you speechless but even then it is important to identify the correct emotion. — Sam Owen

Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood. — Sam Owen

Break from self rejection, try some introspection. — Henry Rollins

My friend ... care for your psyche ... know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves -Socrates — Socrates

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore. — Naomi Judd

Out of love you can speak with straight fury. — Eudora Welty

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on. — Brenda Lee

Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection. — Paramahansa Yogananda

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. — William Godwin

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles. — Pietro Belluschi

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. — Aldous Huxley

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

Shadows are our Dark Selves brought to Light. — Solange Nicole

Thinking of and serving with others can be an antidote to negative and unhealthy introspection. — Billy Graham

It's fine to feel truer than others.
But it's much truer to fix our fault. — Toba Beta

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts. — Eric Hirzel

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place? — Young-Ha Kim

Some days I don't know what is greater.
My wisdom, or my stupidity. — Sanober Khan

A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair. — Marty Rubin

He followed an ironclad rule. He NEVER WATCHED HIMSELF. — Douglas Brinkley

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi

Thurough examination will do the healthy no harm, and it may bless the sick. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else. — Joyce Rachelle

You can't lie to your soul. — Irvine Welsh

The mind becomes much more beautiful,
when man could see his own weaknesses. — Toba Beta

Introspection leads to insights; insights tell us what needs to change. — Sam Owen

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

The problem with introspection is that it has no end. — Philip K. Dick

Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection - complex — Virginia Morell

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell

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

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

Strange how you could become a man's god without noticing. — Richard K. Morgan

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection. — Thomas L. Friedman

'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to. — Greg Rucka

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. — Ray Bradbury

Introverts just just don't buzz as easily. — Susan Cain

Judgmental heart has lack of introspection. — Toba Beta

A long road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of introspection. — Patrick Rothfuss

Get acquainted with your shadow, or find yourself surprised when a crisis emerges. — M.B. Dallocchio

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. — Soichiro Honda

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection. — Willa Cather

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection. — Marcel Proust

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. — Edward Gibbon

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most. — Shannon L. Alder

A writer needs a life of introspection. — Tom Robbins

It takes effort and concern to really think about things. — Sam Owen

Adversities provide opportunities for introspection. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy. — Floriano Martins

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

Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first. — Michele Jennae

Stranger: Do you believe in Jesus, my friend?
Foreigner: O yes, I do but who the hell are you? — Toba Beta

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
[The Minotaur] — Albert Camus

An accusing heart couldn't see her own sins. — Toba Beta

Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered. — Randall Robinson

The journey towards your inner self is through Solitude! — Farheen Viquas

What is reading but silent conversation. — Walter Savage Landor

The only journey is the one within. — Rainer Maria Rilke

By thinking of things you could understand them. — James Joyce

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. — John Ruskin

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know. — Kamal Ravikant

Who am I to judge me? — Ljupka Cvetanova

It's time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement. — Sara Baume

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else? — Madeline Claire Franklin

When corruptors blame each other, the strongest wins.
Apabila sesama koruptor saling menyalahkan, yang terkuat menang. — Toba Beta

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

I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot. — Roman Payne

The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?" — Frederick Lenz

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn — Robert Frost

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

With only adolescent introspection to light the way, each of us, hopelessly pubescent, alone and in secret, attempted to regulate — Philip Roth

Self is a sea boundless and measureless. — Kahlil Gibran