Quotes About Introspection

Does she make you laugh?" He thought about this. "She laughs a good deal when I'm about," he allowed. Did Colin Eversea really want to be laughed at rather than with his entire life? He was the most maddening person she'd ever met, but his humor contained angles; he used it both to deflect and persuade. And if one could see around it, one would see into vulnerability.

I'm wearing clothes in my thoughts and dreams though. What am I wearing in yours? she asked. Me. Conversation between Mary Rose and Harrison in Julie Garwood's FOR THE ROSES

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

And now here you are, sitting in your chair by the window, gazing out urgently, raptly at "your" tree—its shapely green canopy, its black velvety shadows, its sinuously curved trunk, its barky brown bark.

At the end I am always alone.

Lulled by the calming music of ice clattering in the cocktail shaker, I began to ponder; this life we had going for ourselves

Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?

There is something absent in me, I thought. Something incomplete. Even my mother couldn't describe me. There was something empty in me that in other people was full.

To her mind, things had been settled between them. I will keep my own counsel from now on. She

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

Somewhere, beneath that darkness, I had seen both strength and honor. But his words of despair mocked my efforts at healing.

Step by small step; that was the only way I'd survive my time of penance. My lesson in patience. Or whatever it was.

son. This was a revelation. The more she considered

But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants.

My heart was full of the loneliness that follows merriment.

My head was a stage wrapped in a curtain of black velvet, and on the stage stood a single actress, named Naomi.

Era mortificante pensar que otro hombre había descubierto ese exótico aspecto de su belleza que a mí se me había pasado por alto. Supongo que los maridos no son tan observadores, porque miran a sus esposas de una manera invariable.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

I wanted no grand mission, no 'causes,' just a life - a quiet, perhaps a frivolous life - of my own.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.

Loneliness—since I was trying to escape it—was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apparently happiness.