Quotes About Introspection

She expected from other people the same opinions and feelings as her own, and she judged of their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.

En ciertos casos he dado muestras de total incomprensión respecto de algunas personas, teniendo a muchos por más alegres, más graves o más estúpidos de lo que realmente son; aunque no puedo precisar de qué circunstancia deriva el error. Unas veces nos guiamos en tales materias por lo que ellos mismos dicen, otras por lo que afirman los demás; el hecho es que no nos tomamos el trabajo de observar por nosotros mismos.

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.

Soy un hombre decepcionado y mi estado de ánimo no soportaría la soledad.

When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous.

Así, de manera sosegada, sin gran interés por ninguna de las partes, siguieron hablando, ambos desalentados y con la cabeza puesta en otras cosas.

own disposition; and after having

She was deep in the happiness of such misery, or the misery of such happiness, instantly.

I did not understand you. I shut my eyes, and would not understand you, or do you justice. This is a recollection which ought to make me forgive every one sooner than myself.

He sido mejor con él que conmigo mismo.

Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them: and though this was not particularly agreeable to Emma herself, she knew it would be so much less so to her father, that she would not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being thought perfect by every body.

simtea ca fusese foarte slaba, ca se lasase dominata de altii intr-o maniera rusinoasa, ca dominase pe altii intr-o maniera si mai rusinoasa, ca era nenorocita si probabil ca aceasta zi avea sa fie doar inceputul nenorocirilor ei.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently bu what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

Elinor abandonó sus esfuerzos, dejando que algún día la convenciera de que así eran las cosas lo único que podía llegar a convencerla: un conocimiento más profundo de la humanidad.

To learn to read, after all, is a descent into silence.

The horror of her incarceration in the Tower was a defining event Elizabeth could never forget. It made a passionate heart more circumspect, a complex nature more contradictory and a fine intelligence sharp as a blade.

Sometimes, he thought, one should take a long, hard look at old friends. Like old clothes in a cupboard, there comes the moment to examine for moth. Perhaps throw them out and forget them. Yes.

Like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Woolf 's first novel is a self-conscious meditation on the formation of an emergent intellectual and artist (a Ku¨nstlerroman).

from the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.

People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

Niña mía, sal al mundo, camina despacio y en silencio, absórbelo, y con el tiempo tu espíritu, el universo, se conocerá a sí mismo: el Yo Eterno.

The forces raging around us—greed, corruption, hatred, blind prejudice—are ones we might be foolish to think we can overcome. It's understandable

those who bother to get under the layers of fat know that not only does there beat a heart of gold, I'm also bloody good fun to be around, providing I'm in the right mood. But nobody really bothers to look for that, nobody really bothers to look beneath the surface appearance.