Quotes About Introspection

Men go to their caves .. Women talk

A glance at any human should be enough to dispel any notion that it is the work of an intelligent being.

To be genuinely happy requires dipping down into the well to release, heal, and purify the emotions.

To find our loving feelings, many times we need first to feel all our negative feelings.

Look at me, he said, glancing down at his legs. A wretched old man in a red monkey suit. A convicted murderer about to be gassed like an animal. And look at you. A fine young man with a beautiful education and a bright future. Where in the world did I go wrong? What happened to me? I've spent my life hating people, and look what I have to show for it. You, you don't hate anybody. And look where you're headed. We have the same blood. Why am I here?

One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot.

Weil es so viel zu sagen gab, sagten alle drei nichts.

Lacy enjoyed the quiet. She handled most of her cases alone, as did her colleagues. Deeper cuts had decimated the

I've learned to bite my tongue. My tongue has scars.

Why couldn't he spend a few months fishing for trout in shallow mountain streams instead of sitting through dull classes, or driving to Whitfield for another depressing visit, or worrying about which legal hijinks Burch Dunlap might be cooking

What his parents needed was another kid or two, somebody else around the house to observe and analyze.

The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.

Mary watched everything as a mere spectator.

As soon as he had trawled through the confession, he must have realized how flimsy

Everybody's got a river inside, he said. Always something under the surface.

It's the compass; not just the little head ruling the big head, though that's part of it. It's the natural instinct of following your heart, your eyes, to move from place to place, country to country, and do what you feel inside, to find out what you feel inside. How can you find yourself if you stay in your country of birth? It's important, vital, to stand aside and take a look from a different angle, to look with a fresh pair of eyes.

How could I be sure that I was not insane? I did not feel mad, but how was I to know what madness felt like?

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

And then he could bring up the sail and let the prevailing winds carry him back to shore, thus making a living entirely on his own, almost without ever having to see or speak to another human ever in his life, which I am convinced is the secret dream of every person in Maine.

This is a book about me, at what I hope is the beginning of the second half of my life and not the brief, final tenth.

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

measure up - disillusion us by showing

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.