Quotes About Introspection

In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.

I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

It never occurred to me that others had done this before me.

Sometimes, leaving the road, I would walk into the sea and pull it voluptuously over my head and stand momentarily drowned in the cool blind silence, in a salt-stung neutral nowhere.

The key to developing your intuition is developing your self-observation skills.

Try to become aware of one feeling a day, keeping in mind that by doing so, you are building your data bank of self-knowledge

I need to learn to recognize and identify these danger signs when I see them, and not brush them off as "eccentricities," "lovable oddities," or "a sign that he s crying out for help and the comforting of a codependent nurturer that only I, Princess Enabler, can provide. Bad boyfriends don't disguise themselves; their girlfriends do it for them.

There is a (slight) chance that I might be going to hell.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...

Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?

Most intelligent men and women like to go forth into the world and stalk their own prey, choose their own mirrors of dysfunction . . . .

and I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.

Real religion is no religion at all.

How you gonna win when you ain't right within.

Il n'est pas bon que tout le monde lise les pages qui vont suivre ; quelques-uns seuls savoureront ce fruit amer sans danger.

Kako da ?ovjek bude zdrav kad moralno pati? Zar može, ako ima osje?aja, ostati miran u ovo naše doba?

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent.

Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

For my money, this is the highest purpose of journaling. A travelogue enables you to look inward while studying the unfamiliar scenes around you,

Every wild thing is in tune with its surroundings, awake to its fate and in absolute harmony with the planet. Their attention is focused totally outwards. Humans, on the other hand, tend to focus introspectively on their own lives too often, brooding and magnifying problems that the animal kingdom would not waste a millisecond of energy upon. To most people, the magnificent order of the natural world where life and death actually mean something has become unrecognizable.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.