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Introspection Quotes

"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."
Niels Bohr
"Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"The more a man knows, the less he talks."
Voltaire
"It’s important to be good to yourself and be as loving as possible but you also have to recognize when you need to step away from the situation, gain some perspective, and then come back to it"
Sandra Bullock
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
Plato
"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
Plato
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves"
Henry David Thoreau
"I don't want to be rich and I don't want to be famous"
Gwyneth Paltrow
"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering."
Steven Wright
"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it."
Steven Wright
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
Douglas Adams
"In order for you to find yourself, you must first admit you are lost"
David Goggins
"The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself"
David Goggins
"Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people"
Lana Del Rey
"You must be the best judge of your own happiness"
Jane Austen
"Too much of our lives takes place in the head, in memory or imagination, in speculation, in projection, in abstraction."
Jon Kabat Zinn
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls"
Carl Jung
"It is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit"
J.R.R. Tolkien
"The interior life is a real life and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world "
James Baldwin
"I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go."
Neil Gaiman