Quotes About Introspection

you've been raised in a culture that not only eschews silence, but is terrified of it.

look into your heart and examine what is truly important.

You alone can prepare the ground of your being for the experience of living the mystery.

One who understands others has knowledge; one who understands himself has wisdom.

Mentally make an effort to assess every step you're taking in all aspects of your life—including in your career, your relationships, and your health—in terms of directionality. That is, ask yourself, In which way am I truly moving? Am I getting away from my originating place, or am I returning to it?

shift from the acquisition of information and the pursuit of status symbols to understanding and mastering yourself in any and all situations.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair—look at what's really there.

And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating.

I've never thought about Who I want to be. The question has always been What do you want to be?

La triste realidad es que mayoría de las personas no se muestran como son hasta que ya es tarde.

Es fácil mirar hacia atrás y ver, y es fácil dar el consejo, pero la triste realidad es que la mayoría de las personas no se muestran como son en realidad hasta que ya es demasiado tarde.

But I wasn't mad or happy. And as I lay in bed trying to read, I realized that upset had been overshadowed by uneasy. I felt as though someone was watching me. I got so spooked I even got up to check out the window and in the closet and under the bed, but the feeling still didn't go away. It took me nearly until midnight to understand what it was. It was me. Watching me.

Then there was Bryce - the most disturbing of all because I had to admit that I didn't really know him, either. And based on what I'd discovered lately, I didn't care to know anymore. Looking across the table at him, all I got was a strange, detached, neutral feeling. No fireworks, no leftover anger or resurging flutters. Nothing.

Al igual que, de repente, yo no encajaba en ninguna parte. Ni en la escuela, ni en la casa... y cada vez que me daba vuelta, otra persona que había conocido desde siempre se sentía como un extraño para mí. Incluso, me sentí como un extraño.

And in the end I had to face the heart of the issue: How could I expect Adrienne to forgive me if I wasn't willing to even try to forgive my dad? I had no idea how to answer that. And so I ate ice cream.

De verdad tenía miedo de herir sus sentimientos? ¿O le tenía miedo a ella?

I've got to quit avoiding truths -Lisette

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair—look at what's really there.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

In solitude, we lose our loneliness.

I had reached a level of sophistication at which I could know I was fooling myself and still fool myself.

She was a pretty girl, and I was moved by her prettiness. Her hair was brown at the verge of red, and curly. Her face was still a little freckled. But it was her eyes that most impressed me. They were nearly black and had a liquid luster. The brief, laughing look that she had given me made me feel extraordinarily seen, as if after that I might be visible in the dark.