Quotes About Introspection

Know that you cannot help but judge. What you then do with your judgment is the choice." — Story Waters, author and spiritual teacher

She sighed again, wondering how she'd be described as a character in one of her much-loved romance books.

Sometimes I open a book that's so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can't stand it. It's like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart. A day or two days later I'm saying, All right, and I just surrender to it: Do it to me. Go ahead. I want it. I don't want it. I want it. I don't want it.

But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you.

that's my way, always jealous and never thin

One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

When people try to evade problems you first have to ask if it is not just laziness. Jung once said, "Laziness is the greatest passion of mankind, even greater than power or sex or anything." (p. 77)

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor Frankl

Eu vivi muito à sombra da agonia de algumas pessoas. Hoje sou uma agoniada e ninguém me aguenta. Sou em estado de porre sem nunca ter bebido.

I need to remember that where my ego is concerned, the only way to win is not to play.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Không ai có th? thuy?t ph?c ng??i khác thay ??i. M?i cánh c?a c?a s? thay ??i v?n ch? có th? m? ???c t? bên trong b?n thân m?i ng??i. Dù b?ng lý l? hay s? lôi kéo tình c?m, b?n c?ng không th? m? cánh c?a ?ó c?a ng??i khác.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

When I was in love with her, with a lover's tendency to mythify the beloved did I know her better than I do now, when we know our limits? Now

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy , was privacy --for their patrons and themselves.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You can hide from others, but you can't hide from yourself.

We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we've done with it.

But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.