Quotes About Introspection

In Mr. Reed's classroom there's a photo of Molly Molasses taken near the end of her life. In it she sits ramrod straight, wearing a beaded, peaked headdress and two large silver brooches around her neck. Her face is dark and wrinkled and her expression is fierce. Sitting in the empty classroom after school one day, Molly stares at that face for a long time, looking for answers to questions she doesn't know how to ask.

It's the quiet ones who suffer most.

I now understand that no learning that makes a difference to my soul's evolutionary journey will come from the outside. Everything I need is inside….

We are each what never leaves us, what we never see the back of is the self. But what loves us is at the back, as Eurydice was escorting him out without his knowing.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

The path to wisdom is to dress up and stay home.

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

All others are outside myself; I lock my door and bar them out The turmoil, tedium, gad-about. I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all? If I could once lay down myself, And start self-purged upon the race That all must run ! Death runs apace.

The problem is not that they haven't gone far enough, but that they've brought themselves along.

Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us—" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

she is never more herself than when she destroys herself.

Am I to spend the next twenty years in the high-minded company of a smug Philistine who doesn't so much as make me a decent husband?

Borderlines have negative thoughts because they have negative feelings about themselves and others. Memory difficulties, difficulty focusing attention, confused and disorganized thinking, the inability to reason logically, morbid introspection, and intrusively negative thoughts are common

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I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.

Tatty says oh yes, she knows what he's like. But when she thinks about it, she doesn't.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

Njeriu që nuk qartëson ndjenjat e veta, mbetet në mes të rrugës.

Know that the qualities you admire in others are the qualities you need to recognize and nurture inside yourself.

The ultimate goal of this book is to present fragments from an epic about an animal that evolved, started talking, started talking about the fact that it was talking, and then paused briefly before asking itself how it started talking in the first place.

to be a person is to be constantly engaged in making yourself into that person

Jean asked her sister, "Am I?" "Are you?" she asked back.