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...

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.

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev’ry friend—and ev’ry foe.

the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.” Thanks, Wikipedia!

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

The only journey is the one within.

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

Wisdom comes from introspection.

No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That’s why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.

Your character is a reflection of your thoughts.

The time for a person to instantly interact with his own soul, inspect his own mind and introspect with his own heart to identify his true quality of life is when too many people are...

I’ve learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most important...

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

If four of you are playing hide and seek you’ll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you’re looking for? You are the...

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?A: Because you know I will never answer.

It is necessary … for a man to go away by himself … to sit on a rock … and ask, ‘Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

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

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

Doesn’t look like much, does he?” murmurs Frederick. “Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.” The wagtail...

The reason I’m attracted to the light of Scripture is because there’s another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I’m not like them and...

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...

Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.

But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little use) and almost ignorant of Nature: Adler, reducing almost everything to the will...

Vision is a beautiful picture clicked with the roll of soul involving mind and heart to do introspection of the past, reflection of the present and connection with the future to see things considered impossible...

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

Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?””No sir.””That bothers me.

Kau bangun benteng tuk kawal hatimu, dan kau tuduh mereka tak pedulikanmu.

Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against the organism that bore it, strove to fathom and explain the...

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

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

Absence of questions is not proof of answers.

The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take...

They were quiet for a while, eating, then Oromis asked, “Can you tell me, What is the most important mental tool a person can possess?”It was a serious question, and Eragon considered it for a...

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

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

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

By not letting me turn you into something you’re not, you’ve helped me be more of myself.

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.

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

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.

Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased...

The night air was still and damp rising from the mud banks of the creek. Our lives had been determined by the random flow of water through weaknesses in the soil. Where there was water...

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.

Who are you, really? The question penetrated, echoed, demanded an answer. It nipped at me in ways I wasn’t prepared for, pinched in places I didn’t like. Was I really so entrenched in the world...

It pained her that a few hundred words in an also-ran newspaper could get her kicked out. That damned article.And Rook.Her sharpest agony. She had invested in this guy. Waited for this guy. Felt something...

…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and...

True peace is not found in external circumstances, but within ones own heart.

way out.” This is true of the entire scale of metaphors, from the resurrection of a man in his grave, to the sudden outburst of one who has long been silent. If we remain at...