introspection

To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I am such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

There__ just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It__ not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it__ that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don__ see what you wish to see__r glimpse something that you wish weren__ there.

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

I also often ask my guests about what they consider to be their invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals. This may be especially true of writers and actors, many of whom first started to develop their observational skills as a result of being sidelined from typical childhood or adolescent activities because of an infirmity or a feeling of not fitting in. Or so I__e come to believe from talking to so many writers and actors over the years.

Find the light within you through meditation and introspection, and you will illuminate your life from within.

Your character is a reflection of your thoughts.

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

It takes effort and concern to really think about things.

Modern day information overload stops us sufficiently engaging with our thoughts.

We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outwards in space, but inwards as well. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection....

No person is more ruthlessly cheated than someone strip-mined of his or her ability to recall the vibrancy of the past. After all, what would any person be if robbed of all sense of long-term memory? Without memories, all that any person would know about life is if he or she was hungry or thirsty, cold or hot. Without memories of the past and shredded of any illusion of a future there cannot be a frame for our existence. Without a sense of memory, we lack cognition of the very essence of our being. In absence of our memories, there can be no introspection, no ethical awareness, and no devotion, loyalty, or love.

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

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 Goodness, true Life, true Love is. Besides, this is too miserable to be a game_unless demons_NO! Besides, even if I was some kind of pawn, well, then this game piece would rebel!

Mom, Dad, I__ 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 and about life.