Quotes About Introspection

Now I check myself in the mirror."Why do women do that?" he asks."What?""Look yourself down like there's some problem needs fixing. You're better than fine.

There's nothing more unattractive than a man who blames predestination for his own failures and a woman who blames men for her own vulnerability...Blame thyself

He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

The quieter the mind the louder the soul.

There's always a puppet and a puppeteer in a relationship. Take your time to find out which one you are.

Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?

Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.

Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.

A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.

Don't look for Mrs. Right if all your character demonstrates is you are Mr. Wrong.

But sometimes, when she'd be all by herself, walking home late in the evening on a crowded street she'd be afraid of her own shadow following her...

I'm neither sexy nor a star.

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.

I have never looked at myself as a star.

I don't live the life of a star.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

I can't come to terms with stardom or see myself as a star.

Every artist has to remember that they're human beings first, even with the type of stardom placed around their name and aura, they have to still remember that.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

When people stare at you, and you read about yourself in papers - at 13, it just got very confusing. I thought that if this is what it's like to be famous, I don't like it one bit.

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.