Quotes About Introspection

In the stress and strain of life today, with space rockets zooming, loudspeakers thundering in our ears, and a lot of other sounds, the voice of your subconscious goes unnoticed.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Baudelaire proclaimed the delight he felt when at last, in the evening, he was alone in the haven of his bedroom. There, he wrote, citing La Bruyère, he escaped 'the great woe of not being able to be alone', by contrast with those who lose themselves in the crowd, 'probably afraid they couldn't tolerate themselves'.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

Starting with a gray cloud of brain cells that was subject to storms and flash floods, I had to learn to make my own internal weather.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Sometimes, being willing to see the other person means you have to be willing to let them see you.

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did

Lester starts unbuttoning Angela's blouse. She seems disconnected from what's happened. Lester pulls her blouse open, exposing her breasts.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

But I smell the roses not just to remind myself of how lucky I am, but also to wonder how on earth it all happened. I smell the roses to try and figure out how I came to be in the garden at all.

I love long flights. The feeling of being completely unreachable is something I savor, and the limbolike state of being, having departed but not arrived, somehow allows me to catch up with myself, to regroup and check in.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

The most important opinion, of both my work and my conduct in life, is my own.