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“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

tags: self

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#2

“You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: authentic-living, authentic-self, authenticity, being-real, change, changing, childhood-dreams, dreams, goals, ideas, introspection, knowing-what-you-want, living, way-of-life

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#3

“Absence of questions is not proof of answers.”
― Sweety Shinde, Arjun: Without a Doubt

tags: answers, curiosity, introspection, questions, wisdom

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#4

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung

tags: introspection, psychotherapist, secrets, self-awareness, visions

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#5

“The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: imagination, inertia, introspection

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#6

“The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.”
― Floriano Martins

tags: enemy, identity, introspection, self, self-discovery

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#7

“Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: accountability, anxiety, barriers, belief-systems, beliefs, beliefs-in-yourself, blinded, blindsighted, boundaries, brainwashed, bravery, breaking-free, controlled, direction, diversity, expectations, false-beliefs, fear, fearful, fearless, fears, freedom, growing, growth, hurts, idealist, introspection, knowing-what-you-want, learning, listening, ocd, open-minded, open-minded-life, openness, ownership, pain, past, personal-growth, perspective, perspectives-on-life, prisoners, road-blocks, rules, self-discovery, self-esteem-101, self-evaluation, self-imposed-pain, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com, stereotypes, taking-control, unrealistic-expectations, victomization, walls, wisdom

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#9

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, introspection, self-discovery

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#9

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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#10

“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
― Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself

tags: introspection, solitude

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#11

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: cosmos, ego, infinity, introspection, meditation, self

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#12

“A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: contemplation, introspection, life, self-reflection

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#13

“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

tags: introspection, therapy

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#14

“Self is a sea boundless and measureless.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: boundless, endless, inner-life, introspect, introspection, introspective, limitless, measureless, sea, self

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#15

“Introspection is the overture to one’s true character.”
― Josh Brekke

tags: introspection

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#16

“No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That's why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.”
― Christian Jarrett, 30-Second Psychology: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Psychology Theories, Each Explained In Half A Minute

tags: brain, introspection, mind

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#17

“Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,
Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

tags: defects, enemies, flaws, friends, introspection, self-image

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#18

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
― Erica Jong

tags: change, courage, fear, life

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#19

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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#20

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: introspection, retreat, solitude

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#21

“The ability to control the devil in you, defines the strength of your conscience!”
― Gunbir Singh

tags: conscience, consciousness, introspection

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#22

“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

tags: future, history, past

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#23

“Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever. Diana hasn’t quite made up her mind though, because she thinks perhaps it would be nobler to marry some wild, dashing, wicked young man and reform him.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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