Quotes About Introspection

I don't like all the glory, hand-shaking and general run of things after a tournament.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Going out with a jerky guy is kind of like having a piece of food caught in your teeth. All your friends notice it before you do.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

She was, she realized, the unhappy possessor

There's something in the back of my mind when I wake up. Just out of reach. Like when you get a bit of food stuck between your teeth, right at the back of your mouth.

From Joe Gardener's Notebook "You are taste and smell and feeling of pen on paper, you are perfect- Do you know how perfect you are? .. I am nothing but a pair of eyes, waiting to be looked into

To become human, one must make room in oneself for the wonders of the universe. South American Indigenous saying

awkwardness or reservation. When had that stopped? They

And above all, if the guy you're dating doesn't seem to be completely into you, or you feel the need to start "figuring him out," please consider the glorious thought that he might just not be that into you. And then free yourself to go find the one that is.

There are some guys you date who are so bad that when you tell the story about them, it reflects just as badly on you as it does on them.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

I'm not the girl men chose. I'm the girl who's charming and funny and then drives home wondering what she did wrong. I'm the girl who meets someone halfway decent and then fills in the gaps in his character with my own imagination, only to be shocked when he's not the man I thought he was. I'm the girl who hides who she really is for fear I'll fall short.

So begins the exhausting analysis of the cavalcade of unknowable smiles and cryptic sentences uttered by someone your newly interested in. When everything boils down to a succession of enigmatic moments. Moments played and replayed from the perspective you attribute to your lover-to-be, but that are actually from the part of you that's sure you're far too flawed to be loved.

I think, How small my life seemed then. How little I wanted for myself. How little I expected of myself and those who claimed to love me.

didn't it ever occur to me that what got me here could be the same thing that would make me do well?

I think, therefore I'm single.

The wise have inherited wisdom by means of silence and contemplation.

Those who wish to enter this path must accept that they can never explain either to themselves or to others the mysterious inner unfolding that is taking them home.

Cauza necazurilor noastre nu se afl? în jil?ul guvernului, ci în imediata apropiere, în trib, în familie, în noi în?ine.

you cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames. For me. Matilda, Great Expectations is such a book. It gave me permission to change my life.

But you know, Matilda, you cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames. For me, Matilda, Great Expectations is such a book. It gave me permission to change my life.

Philosophy is for those, who feel that they can think beyond their thoughts

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.