Top Introspective Quotes

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

We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.

Introspective Definition

(a.) Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious.

(a.) Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational.

She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusio...

How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fu...

The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she had been all summer. She had taken care of them all, sometimes well, sometimes...

I had no room now for this fear, or for any other fear, because I was filled to the brim with music. And even when it was not literally (audibly) music, there was the music of my muscle-orchestra play...

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;

If I'm afraid to fall then how will I ever fly?

Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

How we look at life depends on how we see ourselves.

Creation, in all its forms, is where I find beauty. If I could travel as far outward as I have inward, I would know with the utmost conviction that distance does not exist.

The people had come to witness a sensational case, to see celebrities, to get material for conversation, to be seen, to kill time. They would return to unwanted jobs, unloved families, unchosen friend...

Divine does not tempt us to see what's in our hearts, it tempts us so we could see what's in our hearts.

The problem is, we have too many cowardly, spineless, selfish people that would sacrifice their children’s future just to avoid the sacrifice love requires of them in the present. And they expect thei...