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Quotes About Introspection

Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again
~ Unknown
I have woken up to find that I am made of words.
~ Unknown
Cuando a través de la vida una ha sido una mujer reservada y pudorosa, y con serios intentos de lealtad salpicando esta monotonía, resulta dificilísimo reconocer el deseo. Éste se escapa, esquivo, huye de rama en rama, aflora sólo para volver a ocultarse, temible, a disfrazar los sentires, dejando el interior sin manejo alguno, impredecible.
~ Unknown
I recently turned forty-two, a complicated stage of life. You're young, but not very, you're not elderly, but you are a bit old. Neither fish nor fowl. It's the transition from one thing to the other, the real start of deterioration. Sometimes I feel like I want to have aged already, to be an old woman who has resolved all her expectations.
~ Unknown
La capacidad de observar – ni siquiera de analizar – está muy mermada hoy en día, cuando todos quieren ser protagonistas.
~ Unknown
Que Neruda me perdone, pero a veces sucede que me canso de ser mujer.
~ Unknown
Ciertos días yo amanecía llena de palabras
~ Unknown
Parece que los hombres viven las relaciones y son las mujeres las que las piensan
~ Unknown
Ya instalada, miré a mi alrededor y no pude reprimir un suspiro de satisfacción respaldado por los rayos de sol blancos y calientes que invadían el lugar. ¿Puede haber una sensación más excitante (y atemorizante a la vez, lo reconozco) para una mujer que el sentirse fuera del alcance de los demás, de los cercanos que la aman pero que simultánea y sutilmente la ahogan?
~ Unknown
No sé si me equivoco, pero creo que la soledad tiene que ver con la cantidad de amor que alguien ha sentido y recibido; ese volumen de gracia te preserva del desplome.
~ Unknown
Improvvisamente sentì la gola arsa e la propria solitudine, senza che le due cose avessero un legame reciproco.
~ Unknown
Search warrant or no, it always felt weird to me to walk into the house of a stranger. But there's also a voyeuristic fascination: what a person chooses to surround himself with tells you a lot about him.
~ Marcia Clark
La verdadera felicidad no se encuentra ni en el jardín ni en la cocina, y no viene de los pájaros ni siquiera de este, ni del otro lado de la verja donde parece que la hierba es más verde. Surge del interior de cada uno de nosotros cuando conocemos la verdad de las cosas.
~ Unknown
La vida consiste en descubrir su propia naturaleza.
~ Unknown
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
~ Unknown
How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
~ Unknown
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.
~ Unknown
Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Have I been made for this, to lie under the blankets and keep myself warm?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Set yourself in motion, if it is in your power, and do not look about you to see if anyone will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.
~ Marcus Aurelius