Quotes About Introspection

The moral is: stay alone. Any idea of any close relationship should be imaginary, like any story I am writing. This way no harm is done to me or to any other person.

She had begun to bake to have her eyes looking at a bowl, a flour bin, an oven, a fire, a face, anything but water. Her hands shaped loaves like scallop shells, like moon shells, like starfish; she ate them as if she ate the sea, to make it part of her, to transform bone to shell and lose herself in it, eyeless, thoughtless, wrapped in memories and anchored on some hoary rock against the currents of the deep.

brooding only feeds the strange pleasure of melancholy...

Of course, Travis hadn't known Jim. Maybe he would think she always fell for tall, dark, curly-haired men with gray eyes. That thought sent Lily's glance back to Cade. She had outdone herself on tall and dark this time, but the thick, straight hair brushing Cade's collar didn't have a lick of curl and his eyes were far from gray. What in hell was she going to do? Well

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.

Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.

before it even began to dawn upon me that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

Quizá me equivoque. Me equivoco con tanta frecuencia...

1. What am I worrying about? "2. What can I do about it?

You are not," said Norman Vincent Peale, "you are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.

Well, now, look. I thought otherwise but I may be wrong. I frequently am. And if I am wrong, I want to be put right. Let's examine the facts.

people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

In a flash, I realized I had brought all this miser on myself by trying to fit myself into a pattern to which I did not conform.

Let's not imitate others. Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.

True? Yes, she had told the truth, but few people like to listen to truths that reflect on their judgment. So, being human, I tried to defend myself.

Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

If I lost all five of my senses, I know I could live on inside my mind. For it is in the mind we see, and in the mind we live, whether we know it or not.

Hay un cierto grado de satisfacción en tener el valor de admitir los errores propios. No sólo limpia el aire de culpa y actitud defensiva, sino que a menudo ayuda a resolver el problema creado por el error.

I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

Humility is not the personal discount that we must offer in the presence of others—against this old interpretation there has been a most healthy modern reaction. True humility any man who thoroughly knows himself must feel; but it is not a humility that assumes a worm-like meekness; it is rather a strong, vibrant prayer for greater power for service

poeta e filósofo Ralph Waldo Emerson escreveu: "Empregue a linguagem que quiser, mas você só conseguirá dizer o que você é.

There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.

As I look back now I wonder how I was ever able to sell anything. I lost years of my life in scrapping and arguing. I keep my mouth shut now. It pays.