Quotes of Introspection - somelinesforyou

“ The terrible fluidity of self-revelation. ”

- Henry James

“ The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere — it is an art form in itself. ”

- Anita Brookner

“ Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. ”

- Francois de Salignac Fenelon

“ Men take more pains to mask than to mend. Games lubricate the body and the mind. Observe all men, thyself most. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ”

- Lucille Ball

“ Without love, benevolence becomes egotism. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. ”

- George Sand

“ Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Out of love you can speak with straight fury. ”

- Eudora Welty

“ Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command, His first command is this - "Man, love thyself. ”

- Edward Young

“ Who so loves believes the impossible. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ Accept the things To which fate binds you and Love the people with whom fate Brings you together But do so with all your heart. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, who am I for? And if not now, when? ”

- Talmud

“ God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Learn what you are and be such. ”

- Pindar

“ I know everything except myself. ”

- Francois Villon

“ Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. ”

- Anonymous

“ Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Saint Augustine

“ Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings. ”

- Robert Brustein

“ Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. ”

- Soichiro Honda

“ You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Self-love seems so often unrequited. ”

- Anthony Powell

“ The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. ”

- Rene Descartes

“ Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ”

- Alan Watts

“ Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. ”

- Jean Anouilh
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