Quotes About Introspection

I can't let someone I just met get the better of me, I thought, shaking my head. I switched off the lights and lay down. I had to catch an early-morning flight to Mumbai the next day and had a four-hour window of sleep. I couldn't wait to reach home. However

When you break up, it becomes a habit to remember everything about the man

Kids are among the most bored people in temples.

It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

Com o tempo aprendi que o ciúme é um sentimento para proclamar de peito aberto, no instante mesmo de sua origem. Porque ao nascer, ele é realmente um sentimento cortês, deve ser logo oferecido à mulher como uma rosa. Senão, no instante seguinte ele se fecha em repolho, e dentro dele todo o mal fermenta. O ciúme é então a espécie mais introvertida das invejas, e mordendo-se todo, põe nos outros a culpa de sua feiura

Custei a aprender que para conhecer uma cidade, melhor que percorrê-la em ônibus de dois andares é se fechar num aposento dentro dela. Não é fácil, e eu sabia que entrar em Budapeste não seria fácil.

Esse silêncio todo me atordoa Atordoado, eu permaneço atento

Al final de tantos sinsabores, creo que hasta me he vuelto más guapo, como sucede a quien sufre un proceso sin saber por qué.

Me curvo en posición fetal y estiro los brazos entre las piernas dobladas, como desperezándome hacia dentro.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy, and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Information should be used as food for thought, not poison to the soul.

The world constantly sways me between poet and malcontent.

No soul can grow to its full stature without spells of solitude.

I'm not anti-social. I'm pro-solitude.

There are many youths, and some men, who most earnestly devote themselves to solitary studies, from the mere love of the pursuit.

Solitude is a form of meditation.

Solitude coaxes magical things from our souls.

The reason old souls enjoy spending time alone is because they never really are.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

And don't talk too fast — you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

It's usually when a man speaks without thinking that he says what he thinks.

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.

Tea should be taken in solitude...

The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.