Having children made me go down a road of serious…

“introspection and self-analysis, a creative capacity, an ability to think under adverse circumstances, ethical behavior that assures avoiding acting out in the counter transference,…

— Otto F. Kernberg

Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself…

— Caroline Knapp

“He believed that the secret of happiness was to concentrate on things outside oneself. Introspection and self-awareness were the enemies of contentment, and”

— James Runcie

“I remember the sad case of a very godly man whom I knew who had two daughters who were the most excellent women. They…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as…

— Pankaj Mishra

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those…

— Eric Maisel

To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by partaking of…

— Howard W. Hunter

Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the…

— Sylvia Plath

“Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to this point,…

— Pope Gregory I

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

— Richard Whately

In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with…

— Jeremy Taylor

“The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.”

— John Eldredge

“Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that…

— Zeena Schreck

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

— George Herbert