Quotes About Introspection

I want and need to like myself again; I have to convince myself that I'm capable of taking my own decision.

Everything seemed wrapped in an aura of oppressive silence; it seemed that no one wanted to share their inner world with strangers.

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.

Can you train yourself to love the right man? Of course you can. The problem is forgetting about the wrong man, the one passing by who came in a door that was left open without asking permission.

Gradually, the anxiety gives way to contemplation, and I start to listen to my soul. It has been longing to speak to me, but I'm always too busy.

Só conseguimos ser generosos connosco nas poucas vezes que precisamos de ser severos.

Are the latter aware of their limitations, and do they know that life is short and wonder what point there is in going on?

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up.

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl Buck

I will spend the rest of my life assembling my own mind and my own soul. I will take care of my body carefully, not that it may any more please a man, but because it houses me and therefore I am dependent upon it.

les gens se sentent seuls quand ils rêvent .

Why must this happen to me?" To this there could be no answer and there was none. When I knew at last that there could never be an answer, my own resolve shaped into the determination to make meaning out of the meaningless, and so provide the answer, though it was of my own making.

don't know what to tell you," he said slowly. "I have not had time to think much about myself. Wherever I have been—at least until now, I have been mostly alone. The others were always much bigger—much older." He paused to consider himself in the past. "Older in years, that is," he amended. "I've always been too old for myself." She looked at him thoughtfully. "Then you have an old soul.

and looked sharply across the street. There was only one house

IT WAS HER FORTIETH birthday. Madame Wu sat before the tilted mirror of her toilet case and looked at her own calm face. In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.

steadily for a few minutes because Leah was so beautiful. She looked at herself in the mirror on her dressing table, and it seemed to her that all

He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone.

Mais elle est ainsi, vivant en elle-même, voyant de la beauté où d'autres n'en trouvent point.

On croirait qu'il y a en elle deux personnes : l'une silencieuse, lointaine, même un peu taciturne, l'autre très gaie, mais d'une gaieté trop forcée pour être de la vraie joie.

inquired. She

In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.

Déjame estar triste, es la única forma que conozco de estrujar la felicidad para que después no me pene.