Quotes About Introspection

I regret feeling so much guilt.

She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.

Edith Wharton was the wisest person ever on lineliness. She believed the cure for it wasn't always to have company, but to find a way to be happy with your owwn company.

You realised that we weren't special. We weren't superheroes. We were just old. And that, in cases such as Hendrich, it didn't really matter how many years or decades or centuries had passed, because you were always living within the parameters of your personality. No expanse of time or place could change that. You could never escape yourself.

Ik heb nooit een gezelliger kameraad gevonden dan de eenzaamheid. (Thoreau)

Maybe you are a road, not a destination. That is fine. Be a road. But make sure it's one with something to look at out of the window.

She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to the wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.

I stared at myself in the mirror. I stared at my face until it was not my face. I went back to the table and sat down and I did not say how I was feeling to anyone. To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling.

She realised that she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.

where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them. And she realised it was the same with lives.

It was one of the reasons why I preferred the library to the playing field. It

But you also have to know what you like. What to type in the metaphorical search box. And sometimes you have to try a few things before that becomes clear.

anything that lessens that extreme sense of self, that makes me feel me but at a lower volume, is very welcome.

Po?util sem se osamljenega. Ne depresivnega. Le tisti nedolo?ljivi najstniški ob?utek, da te nih?e ne razume. Seveda se tudi sam nisem razumel. Zaradi marsi?esa sem si delal skrbi … ves ?as me je nekaj skrbelo. Skrbelo me ni le tisto, kar bi me vetjetno moralo skrbeti: sama skrb. Trajalo je celih enajst let, preden sem naslovil to vprašanje.

Za ljudi, ko radi berejo, velja, da naj bi bili osamljeni, meni pa so knjige pomenile pot iz osamljenosti. ?e si takšne vrste, da preve? razmišljaš o stvareh, ni ni?esar samotnejšega, kakor ?e si obkrožen z množico ljudi na drugi valovni dolžini.

I hit rock bottom, but I found something solid there.

The only fear of missing out that matters is the fear of missing out on yourself.

Henry David Thoreau's Walden, both

But you'll know when you find yourself, because then you will stop ageing.

Ten books that helped my mind 1.  Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke 2. Poems – Emily Dickinson 3. Henry David Thoreau's journal 4.  When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chödrön 5.  The House at Pooh Corner – A.A. Milne 6.  Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott 7. Meditations – Marcus Aurelius 8. Tao Te Ching – Laozi 9. Serious Concerns – Wendy Cope 10. Dream Work – Mary Oliver

I used to deal with worry by distracting myself. By going out to clubs, by drinking heavily, by spending summers in Ibiza, by wanting the spiciest food, the brashest movies, the edgiest novels, the loudest music, the latest nights. I was scared of the quiet. I was scared, I suppose, of having to slow down and soften the volume. Scared of having nothing but my own mind to listen to.

Exista un singur colt in univers, pe care stii sigur ca il poti face mai bun - si acela esti tu insuti.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what did not. -Camus

But she'll be there in the bathroom and she won't know how she got there.' 'And have you never walked into a room and wondered what you came in for? Have you never forgotten what you just did?