#introspection

Thurough examination will do the healthy no harm, and it may bless the sick. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. ↗

— William Godwin

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I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on. ↗

— Brenda Lee

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She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself. ↗

— Will Weaver

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…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 present myself. ↗

— Bell Hooks

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Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting. ↗

— Kim Young-ha

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He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn ↗

— Robert Frost

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Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

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I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#philosophy #society #weakness #introspection