Quotes About Introspection

No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams.

those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.

She was nearly twenty, with dark hair, darker eyes, and a hint of something deeper within. There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate. Anyone glancing at her would have thought her soft: a serious error of judgment.

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

Imagine that your mouth is a water spout. When you open the valve (speak), whatever comes out is an indicator of what's inside of you.

We are much better able to evaluate someone else's behavior than we are our own.

Our tendency to point out the weaknesses of others is a way to avoid facing our own shortcomings and areas needing improvement.

What do I know?' said Huw, and Gwyn was frightened by the fear in Huw's eyes. 'What do I know?... I know more than I know... I don't know what I know... The weight, the weight of it!

Como el señor Keats, el poeta, convertiría el vagar sola y pálida en virtud. Tendría que hacerse alguien, y no la esposa de alguien

This is what it must feel like to be an ant among elephants , Akira thought. The giant sequoias made her feel small and insignificant, but in a good way. They reminded her that she wasn't at the center of the universe. That there were things that were far older and bigger than she was.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

It's what you're reading that matters, and how you're reading it, not the speed with which you're getting through it. Reading is supposed to be about the encounter with other minds, not an opportunity to return to the endlessly appealing subject of Me.

The answers make us wise, but the questions make us human.

Waiting for her in reception, pretending to read a paper, he was surprised by his own nervousness; an indication of how little one knew oneself. She

Loners probably experience life at a more profound level than the self-consciously gregarious who know nothing of individuality, or who lack the courage to go their own way.

What makes a monster and what makes a man?

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

WHY IS IT THAT when there is ice on the streets, everyone walks slowly and carefully out of fear of slipping physically, while in their daily lives, people are not afraid of slipping spiritually? —RABBI ISSER ZALMAN MELTZER (1870–1953)

Occupy a rightful space, neither too much nor too little. Focus neither on your own virtues nor the faults of others.

way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Ps. 139:23–24)? If you go on through life blindly confident but

The insecure are as self-absorbed as the boastful. The former worry that everyone is watching them. The latter worry that everyone is not.