Quotes About Introspection

Everyone has a place in history. Mine is clouds.

THE NECESSITY OF APPEARING IN YOUR OWN FACE There are days when that is the last place in the world that you want to be but you have to be there, like a movie, because it -----features you.

We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink.

I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there… I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then…

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.

I sat down and looked the bus over to see who was there, and it took me about a minute to realize that there was something very wrong with that bus, and it took the other people about the same period to realize that there was something very wrong with the bus, and the thing that was wrong was me.

He was so fascinated by the long single strand of black hair that he did not overflow his mind with fantasies about it, turning it into a hundred varieties of his imagination.    He just sat there staring at it.    Japanese hair.

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen.

I wonder what in the hell I was thinking about?' he said aloud to himself. 'I wonder if I'm losing my mind?' That was like a duck wondering why it flies south in the autumn or an old camel noticing one day that he has a hump on his back.

He created his own Kool-Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It's absolutely true that "Wherever you go, there you are.

A low mood is not the time to analyze your life. To do so is emotional suicide.

Rather than diluting the positive feelings by telling others about your own kindness, by keeping it to yourself you get to retain all the positive feelings.

when you judge someone else or their opinion, it really doesn't say anything about the other person, but it says quite a bit about your need to be judgmental.

Richard Cooper

Something needed to change - and fast. But it wasn't the world, government, or women that needed to change. It was me.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive him-self'.

others to disagree with you. Form independent opinions on the basis of your own reason and experience; do not allow yourself to be led blindly by others. Question everything.

H. L. Mencken, again with characteristic cynicism, defined conscience as the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking.

consciousness-raising.

He could never admit to himself that it was death that had given his life meaning.

The more people I am with, Dorrigo thought, the more alone I feel.