Quotes About Introspection

There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.

Anyone to whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart. —Ludwig Wittgenstein

Like the rest of the world, they seemed to have figured out something I didn't know - where they'd come from, where they were going - and moved on.

Your being is as mysterious now as it was from the moment you were born.

Only a man of genius can bare a solitary life.

To write, one only needs a pen. Of course, by pen I mean enclosure.

Sometimes when you are standing still and it's snowing, you think that you hear music. You can't tell where it's coming from either. I wondered if we all really did have a soundtrack, but we just get so used to it that we can't hear it anymore, the same way that we block out the sound of our own heartbeat.

The woman in red was surrounded by the crowd and she was alone. It was utterly public but intensely private.

Perhaps spirituality is another word for curiosity.

Find ways to develop self-awareness so you know what you do well... you do a thousand things brilliantly, and if you don't know what they are you aren't going to be able to become a true evaluator of your own work or other people's.

I was going to be in therapy for a long, long time. I wasn't even a sentence yet. But I had some syllables, some new sounds. The first halves of the sentences I was accumulating were solid. I trusted them.

I'll have to figure it out for myself. That's thge problem with life. It's not really a spectator sport.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. —Alan Watts

don't like that man. I must get to know him better. —Abraham Lincoln

Scarlett O'Hara . . . I'll think about that tomorrow. XOXO,

She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities -- this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what was in front of me. On the other hand, I had no sense of direction or destiny.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

Making the decision to honor the wisdom of one's soul isn't always easy. It can bring into question our very sense of who we are. If we really listen to the truth bubbling up beneath the surface of our lives, things might change. We might have to face the fact that our inner wisdom and that which we have come to accept as true, safe and popular may be very different--a process that can be rather disconcerting, to say the least.

It probably doesn't mean anything.

Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.

mirrors, and scraps of scribbled

firm believer in knowing people by knowing what they read, holding their favorite words in your mouth, running curious fingers along the spines of their books.