Quotes About Introspection

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.

He gazed at me. "You've grown up honey." It felt good to hear it. I thought maybe he was right. Then it occurred to me that if I really had grown up I wouldn't want to be told.

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

You were sleeping?" said Princess One. "No," I said. "Sometimes I just like to lie in the dark for hours with my eyes closed.

Sometimes it's hard to hear when we've done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.

Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine.

Looking back at that conversation, I can't help wondering: Did I know? Did I know what was coming, and did I think that as long as I wouldn't let Livvie say the words, they wouldn't be true?

What is it doing to me? Will the darkness consume me?

The problem is, no matter how far or fast you drive, you can't leave yourself behind. And if you can't feel at home in your own head, where can you?

I reckon we all have to play different parts for different people. Sometimes I think the only time we can really be ourselves is when we're all alone with nobody to disappoint.

The end of a relationship doesn't mean you failed. It means you learned what you needed to, and it's time to move on.

Why did tears make people treat you like a five-year-old when usually they meant something grown-up was going on inside?

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I don't know when the boys began to walk away with parts of myself in their sticky hands; when loving became a process of subtraction. Or why, having given up what seems so much, I'm willing to lose even more — erasing all this body's known, relearning it with you.

Your thoughts are just a diary of your life, you are not your thoughts but the observers of your thoughts. Observe your thoughts and choose your readings carefully »

The formula is simple: In any given situation, detach and ask, "What do I need to do to take care of myself?

What if?.. What if I am all to see? What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss? What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday And there is no better way? What then?

Nothing wrong with taking time to figure out your life and make sure you really like where your life is going. I mean, it's better to do it now than when it's too late.

Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves, and to our spouses--our spouses in particular, for that matter. It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.

Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion.

The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.

The great end of learning is nothing else but to seek for the lost mind.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.