Quotes About Introspection

To the one me hurt within me I said: be quiet. Life is much more rough here, outside…

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

Schneiderman (alias David Britton alias David Henry)

the house. She was ashamed about the Mars Bar

but embarrassment.

I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

I inwardly did nothing.O Iscariot-like crime!

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

veces nos da miedo enfrentarnos con la realidad de nuestra alma. Decía Goethe: «¿Conocerme a mí mismo? Si lo hiciera, saldría corriendo espantado».

Like physicians we have a duty to 'do no harm' (..). I argue that we can only do this through recognition of our own weaknesses and a willingness to understand how we might be tempted into positions of false omnipotence, moral superiority and boundary violations. (..) Like Guggenbuhl-Craig, I believe there is a 'bogeyman' within every therapist, longing for control (1971, p. 55).

Sometimes God knocks us back a bit to remind us we're not as big and mighty as we thing.

I sometimes imagine there is a clerk behind a desk situated between the brain and the mouth. It is his job to examine utterances on their way out, and stamp them with approval or send them back for reconsideration. If such a clerk exists, mine must be very harried and overworked; and on occasion he puts his head down on the desk in despair, letting things pass without so much as a second glance.

Robert—who knew quite well that he had the empathic sensitivity of a whelk—did not expect to have any such difficulties himself.

I virkeligheden maskerede hvert eneste ord, jeg ikke kunne udtale, et område, som jeg nægtede at trænge ind på. Og hvert eneste ord, jeg glædede mig ved at udtale, angav et område, der passede mig godt.

Jeg havde lyst til at sige til dem: 'Nej, jeg er ikke tosset og har aldrig været det. Eller måske er jeg tosset, men så er i det også.

Molto più tardi avrei imparato che il pensiero non si affaccia spontaneamente alla porta del nascosto. Non basta voler penetrare nell'inconscio perché la mente venga dietro. Il pensiero temporeggia, va avanti poi indietro, esita, sta in agguato ma poi quando viene il momento giusto, si ferma davanti alla porta come un cane da punta, rimane paralizzato. Poi, è il padrone che deve far alzare la selvaggina.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

There's a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.

What holds us back from consistently performing at the levels we're capable of? To find the answer, we have to look inside. No matter what we're trying to figure out, the biggest barriers are often in our own minds: