Quotes About Introspection

Whenever I was alone while modeling overseas, I would always think about who I was and what it meant to be a human being and I personally think this is what eventually triggered my desire to act, and brought me to sign with my acting agency.

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

I'm losing my hair. I'm overweight. It's not like that's at the top of the list when women go looking for a man. It's like - complete collapse, every year.

As a person I'm often overwhelmed by emotions, so I write them down.

An old Buddhist saying: BELIEVE nothing because it is said to be of divine origin. BELIEVE nothing because a wise man said it. BELIEVE nothing because its belief is generally held. BELIEVE nothing because it is written in ancient books. BELIEVE nothing because someone else believes it. BUT believe only what you yourself know to be true.

Well, sugar," she said, limping off, "don't be too hard on yourself. Now and again it's okay to let yourself off the hook." But that was the trouble, wasn't it? Letting himself off the hook had been his way of life.

The beads of his words strung with too much silence between them.

Sound more mean than crazy," he said. "I don't know if I want to go

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream. Maybe only then could a man like Ingersoll make sense.

that she might slip off into that space where she stared, go for good to whatever she kept watching.

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

We believe that it is the job of each of us to step outside of ourselves, look beyond the shadows, and seek reality. If we hope to present an authentic self to the world, it is critical that we understand what is real and true about ourselves. So how do we begin to see our companies, our brands, our products, or ourselves as we really are ? For us, the best way to start is to stop watching shadows and start facing reality.

If you are going to have healthy relationships, you'll need to spend time alone with God. Paradoxically, those who have the healthiest relationships often are the most comfortable in being alone with God.

That you feel something to be right may have its cause in your never having thought much about yourself and having blindly accepted what has been labelled right since your childhood.' —Friedrich Nietzsche

Thanks anyway,' Vanderdecker repeated, and wandered off to have a stare at the sea. It was his equivalent to beating his head repeatedly against a wall.

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

That's the problem with running away, said the little voice. No matter where you go, you have to take yourself with you; and if yourself is constitutionally incapable of leaving well enough alone and not worrying if the rest of the world is weirder than ferret ragout, where the hell is the point?

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

I'm on my own again. I feel totally exhausted. I

We don't drink to forget. We drink to remember.

En dieper dan de nacht'lijk roode stad, in tocht en vuilnisch der beschaving, op een smal perron met betegelde muuren en reclameborden, zoek ik de gelede kookers, de spooren en mechanische zuuren van een helwitte zwam: ondanks ontbuiging het geborgen gevoel, als in een schoot. Maar wie ben ik, dat ik hoopen kan. Dat ik niet word zooals den Roltrap hier: slechts bewegend door betreding, en door beweging sneller eenzaam.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

It was as Ginger's grandfather had said. It did not matter how far you go, you always take yourself with you.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.