Quotes About Introspection

Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I write.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

Loving one self is the first step before loving anyone else.

People don't accept their mistake that's why the relationships end. In the end you lose someone you love because of your pride.

Your eyes are like a mirror... and what you see in me is a reflection of you.

Before you can give love and affection to someone, you have to be immersed with self love and acceptance.

Don't spend your entire life looking for love. First learn to love yourself, then Mrs/Mr Right will come to you.

It's funny how loving yourself is being full of yourself, and hating yourself is being attention seeking.

The uncertainty of certain feelings is the best way to break them.

If you need someone to be around to complete you, it's something missing from inside. Find that first and then get love.

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us were wrong. Someone we trust.

All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.

Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it's easy to fool yourself into believing you understand things. Writing is terrible for vanity and self-delusion.