Quotes About Introspection

And I think a lot more than I used to." "I wouldn't recommend thinking too much." "I don't carry it so far as brooding." "Even pondering is sometimes too far.

the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.

TUESDAY, 30 DECEMBER

To create good fiction, you have to like people enough to want to write about the human condition—but close yourself alone in a room for a large part of your life to get the job done right.

A novena to the darkness

by those who want to feel good about themselves without being put to the inconvenience of doing something.

GETTING TO KNOW ME

If this is a lonely life, it is also colorful.

Sometimes I wondered if I had everything backward, my life and purpose and meaning all backward. Maybe the best thing I had to offer was fry cookery of a high order, and maybe my paranormal abilities were nothing more than the equivalent of a talent for farting on command, better repressed than indulged. I, no less than anyone, was capable of self-delusion, of pride that led me to embrace a grander image of myself than was the truth.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts: the moonless midnight of our mind

She wondered if she might be alone in this disquiet or whether these days other people experienced it as well, and she suspected that all of them knew the feeling whether they would admit it or not.

Carson heard that expression more often these days—It is what it is—and it nettled him every time someone spoke it. He wanted to say to Eckman, You are what you are, and now I know what that is.

Sure, I can turn on the TV or music, but even then I can't turn off the quiet, the emptiness.

Don't use your mind to try and figure things out. What is it that watches your mind? Be there—now.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

When you look ito the still, deep water, you can feel it looking back, trying to come up with the proper punishment. Fucking water, who made you the boss?

There is an old saying, 'It takes one to know one.' We see in others what we like and don't like in ourselves. If we embrace these parts of ourselves we will be able to see others as they are, not as we see them through our cloud of projection.

I realized I only judged people when they displayed a quality I could not accept in myself.

Your sub-personalities can tell you what work is left unfinished, what you have to do to resolve recurring patterns. They will tell you what you need to do to learn a specific lesson. If you're willing to listen you will find your sub-personalities are funny, resourceful, honest, and forgiving - the wisest people in the universe when it comes to yourself. This is because they're giving you answers that come from within you.

Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming.

We project our own shortcomings onto others. We say to others what we should be saying to ourselves.

What a shame that he pushed people and relationships away. With a personality transplant he would have the potential to be more than eye candy.

She wanted us to see that life could be good, if we looked around at the world instead of within ourselves.

For the first time since I arrived, it struck me how truly alone I was.