Quotes About Introspection

Write the story of a contemporary cured of his heartbreaks solely by long contemplation of a landscape

The fear of exposing one's private life gives way to the desire to over-expose it to every one.

Yes, my dear," she said out loud to herself, "you took quite a fall." And felt pure amazement at the long time it had taken before she had finally found again the ground.

How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?

Outside, as she passed the kitchen window, she watched her breath appear before her in the lamplight and then it died away in moist clouds. This was the smoke of her internal fire and her soul. Every breath was a letter to the world. These she mailed into the cold air leaning back with pursed lips to send it upward.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won't survive.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

We are the ones who create the messes in our heads. It does not come from outside.

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.