Quotes About Introspection

Voltaire—you know him? He said that a man should cultivate his own garden. Guess I'm with him on that.

God and I weren't on speaking terms. Still, no bars for me on Sundays.

it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

I had to face it - there were warning signs I chose to ignore when I first fell in love with him

Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

La solitude est une belle chose; mais il faut quelqu'un pour vous dire que la solitude est une belle chose.

Kar??l?k görmemi? duygular baz? ruhlarda kin haline gelir, bende ise öyle olmad?; yo?unla?t? bu duygular içimde, bir yer etti kendine, sonra da oradan hayat?ma f??k?rd?.

Înclinarea spre lene - desfrâul sufletelor poetice.

A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings sprout and grow-and feelings are all that matters, as far as I'm concerned. Is a feeling anything but an entire world poured into a thought?

Notre conscience est un juge infaillible, quand nous ne l'avons pas encore assassinée.

J'ai été enterré sous les morts ; mais, maintenant, je suis enterré sous des vivants, sous des actes, sous des faits, sous la société tout entière, qui veut me faire rentrer sous terre!

Truth is less complete in its utterance; it does not put everything on the outside; it allows us to see what is within.

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table — a fool's notion of history.

build no barricades when no one attacks you. Don't excite tempests of heart and conscience merely to pacify your conscience and quiet your heart, now ruffled only by a tiny breeze.

Çocuklu?umu, delikanl?l???m? anlatt?m ona; size anlatt???m gibi uzaktan hüküm vererek de?il, yaralar? hala kanayan genç adam?n ate?li sözleriyle... ... Bir ara sessiz geçti. Bu sessizlikte ruhlar?m?z ?u avutucu dü?ünce içinde birbiriyle evlendiler: Demek ki ac? çeken bir ben de?ilmi?im!

Strong in the experience of her twenty years, she blamed fate, because, not knowing that the mainspring of happiness is in ourselves, she demanded it of the circumstances of life.

Quién decidirá lo que es más horrible: corazones resecos o cráneos vacíos? La

Chi infatti deciderà se è spettacolo più orrendo quello dei cuori umani induriti o quello dei teschi vuoti?

Mor?l?s ciešanas, kas p?rsp?j fizisk?s, allaž izraisa maz?ku ž?lumu, jo cilv?ka acij nav saskat?mas.