Quotes About Introspection

Sometimes the only way for me to find out what it is I want to do is go ahead and do something. Then the moment I start to act, my feelings become clear.

I live from one tentative conclusion to the next, thinking each one is final. The only thing i know for sure is that I'am confused.

Do I avoid looking a stranger in the eyes because I don't want to make him uncomfortable, or do I turn my eyes so he can't look into me?

To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

Next time I will ..." "From now on I will ..." - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behaviour, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

In order to see, I have to be willing to be seen.

We gaan zien. Wij gaan zien. Toch.

El imaginario nos interpela, no es tan primitivo, simple o fantástico como creemos.

When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Look within! The secret is inside you.

And though he liked drawing trees he liked most of all to be with trees. He would climb them, lean against them, even talk to them. It saddened him to discover the not everyone shared his feelings towards them.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt

Her only defence for shifting religious loyalties was that she was very spiritually inclined.

All the problems that came up... they all arose because of the foreign bodies within us ? things that happened in our childhood, some big, some small, but all significant; things that happened ten years ago, but still control our lives today; things from our yesterdays that will decide what we drink, dream, and doubt, till the day we die. But you can't see those things, because they're not on the outside.

The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.