Quotes About Introspection

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

The day that she stopped speaking was the day she began to understand so much more about the world around her, to appreciate the many textures of silence. She learned to listen.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

These days I sit on corner stones And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

It's tricky being shy. You blame yourself for it, and other people blame you too.

I suspected other people were better at living than me. Did others elbow their way through fog, rising out of it somedays, relief blending with terror at its return?

Puedes andar con otra persona durante semanas y meses sin percibir los hermosos diseños de sus plumas. Y cuando finalmente los ves, te das cuenta que los has destrozado en mil pedazos.

Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you and I need to gaze into each other's eyes first? How will I know how to gaze at Christina? And my pebble kicking? Disaster.

This is what I want you all to do. I want you to open a new document and type up a list of three problems in your life. Not the universe's life - your own. Underneath, type the solutions." "If we know the solutions," said Belle, "they're not problems." "Exactly," said Denny. "You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.

What an abundance of leisure the person gains who is not looking over at what his neighbor is saying, doing, or thinking, but only at what he himself is doing, in order that he does what is just and respectful of the gods. As Agathon4 said, do not peer into the darkness of another's character, but run straight toward the finish line without straying from your path.

Aprender de uno mismo significa tener la capacidad de observarse y de deducir, a partir de la observación, el estado en el cual funcionamos y lo que necesitamos corregir del mismo. Para poder observar nuestro interior, la herramienta fundamental es la concentración.

Sometimes, I used to sit under the sky, on a clear night, and gaze at the stars, saying, in my croaky voice: "Lord, if you're up there somewhere, and you aren't too busy, come and say a few words to me, because I'm very lonely and it would make me so happy." Nothing happened. So I reckon that humanity— which I wonder whether I belong to —really had a very vivid imagination.

I wondered what would make me stop, whether it would be hunger, sleep or boredom – in other words, what prompts decisions when you are utterly alone.

Et là, secouée par les sanglots, je me suis trouvée acculée, trop tard, bien trop tard, à me rendre compte que moi aussi j'avais aimé, que je pouvais souffrir, et que, en somme, j'étais humaine.

Whatever anyone says or does is more about them than it is about me...

Here the work had a beginning and an end, like house painting or carpentry, and if she didn't want to talk to anyone, she didn't have to.

But here alone, not needing to take care of anyone else and not caring very much what happened because all the worst things had already happened, she stepped into the

She guessed he was past a turning point, early thirties, where he imagined he would know something with certainty, and he looked angry that his life was not unfolding in a way befitting him.

She wanted her 4:00 A.M. brain to experience the house, the time when thinking goes spiral and catastrophic before morning light restores reason.

It was such a relief to realize someone else had a weird vivid inner life like my own!

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

I don't know," he said softly. "I look into the future and I don't see anything else. It's like it's this big blank space where I should be.