Quotes About Introspection

Ciò che più parla nelle parole è il silenzio.

Sairei de mim mesmo em busca de mim mesmo, em busca de minha imagem perdida nos abismos do desespero, minha imagem de cuja face já não me lembro mais…

Accept that you will never be objective enough to judge your personal writing very well. During

If you want to be an authentic writer, learn to tell the truth, to wrestle with it, to reflect on it, and then to write about it with great care. And great humility.

She smiled and touched the smattering of silver at his temple, a shyness in her, and yet a new self-possession in her as she came to the realization that love turns a girl into a woman, and a man into a boy.

Her eyes were misting over, her heart was talking on her lips. To need everything when everything is finished. She no longer knew whether she was sad or whether it was hunger. To live like that, head bent forward, chin resting down near her breasts, without muscles, without sinews, without vertebrae. She smiled a martyr's smile for her own benefit: for her wretchedness was also a tenderness, and resignation is not the same as oblivion.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

I must speak to the dark.

ambivalent. To feel two ways about the same thing, 'Ambi-' from the Greek, meaning 'both.' 'valent,' from the Latin, meaning 'going.' Remember: Feeling ambivalent is a crucial step in the process of living thoughtfully. When we notice our ambivalence and examine it, then our minds can thrive.

I tell him he's a good boy. He says he knows it. "Good boy sure," he says. I want to dig down way far into his brain and find out some of his details. How does he know? What makes him so convinced?

I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.

Seems that folks who try to hide it the most end up judging the most. Guess they figure if they judge other people's garbage it makes their own not quite so dirty.

Never again will I allow myself to be so caught up in the events of my world and my activities that I lose contact with my own heart and mind. All my achievements mean nothing if I lose myself in the process.

It takes great courage to be honest when the honesty is pointed at yourself.

Matthew nodded. "Aunt Abby is one in a million. I agree with her. I think every individual should feel they alone are responsible for their thoughts and actions.

I'm realizing human nature is a very difficult thing to escape. We can be self-righteous, or realize much of what we hate in others is what we have inside ourselves.

Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection—complex

She knew how his mind worked. He would process their discussion over the next few days. At odd times he would utter an objection out of the blue. While buttering his toast he might say, "That lawn is a disaster, you know." Or when he slid into bed at night, "The property taxes are probably triple what we pay now." She would reply with a smile and a nod and revel in a secret satisfaction. Let him brood over the downsides, all the while becoming accustomed to the idea.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand.