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...

…when you’re a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself…

Strange how you could become a man’s god without noticing.

Intuition is an institution of inspiration and to have it in life, all a person requires to do is an introspection with a tinge of the right imagination.

Mom, Dad, I’m fourteen, I see what the world is like. And, no, I did not get this from the psychologist…I came to this understanding on my own, from what I really see in myself...

I don’t believe in the inner journey. Real life is lived outdoors.

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

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

When life gets rough, never think you have failed… allow your self a quality of emotion and introspection. It is called turning inwards. When you observe and examine your mental and emotional state, from your...

What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring...

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

The world is a palace without bedsheets

The past may not hurt you, but it won’t challenge you, either.

You can’t lie to your soul.

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.

You are caught in the vicious cycle. You are hesitant because you are not used for things going your way. And things will never go your way because you remain hesitant. You see what you...

womens’ issues.” Likewise, in fantasy, the imprimatur of a dude somehow makes stuff like romance, relationship drama, introspection, and adorable animal companions magically not girly after all.In a sense, we male fantasists are allowed to...

Dear,it’s quite clear that people listen only that what they want to hear and especially that which does not create fear of losing their personal interest in the talk, and the rest even if the...

It seemed that for every evil they defeated, worse took its place, but Vaughn banished the thought that this all might be a cruel game, a hoax played on the… ”No! I know what true...

What does introspection mean? It means you’re looking in the wrong direction.

It’s fine to feel truer than others.But it’s much truer to fix our fault.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

I like a man who pauses to reflect, while pausing in the mirror to reflect. I can imagine that such a man would look exactly like my clone.

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

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