#introspection

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. ↗

— John Ruskin

#psychology #self-importance #self-involvement #psychology

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place? ↗

— Kim Young-ha

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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

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Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#thought

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." [The Minotaur] ↗

— Albert Camus

#retreat #solitude #understanding

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#writing #introspection

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

— Kim Young-ha

#inspirational #introspection #kim #korea #korean

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done? ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#positive-thinking #self-help #self-improvement #love