Quotes About Introspection

I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.

It takes years for me to trust I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

I took it back: he didn't just hate himself down deep. He'd made plenty of room in there for me, too.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn't look too closely at another person's pain.

all got something to clean up in our lives.

The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

Maybe you're repeating what you haven't repaired.

Part of checking in with yourself is becoming aware of what thoughts you're having over and over again. These are usually signs of agreements you've made about yourself internally: spiritually, mentally, and emotionally.

sixteenth-century philosopher Michel de Montaigne once wrote, "When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her?

He always had this thing about him, that he wouldn't nominate himself to run in the race. But if he was put in the race, he would want to win it. It's a strange thing. He has a healthy disrespect - and respect - for his own ego. He knows what he's capable of, and he would not push himself forward. He would rather hang back in the shadows and be discovered.

I took a kind of ex-boyfriend initiative. I guess I wanted to know whether the past was still breathing inside of us. Because inasmuch as I had been irrelevant to their destiny for such a long time, I felt they had become irrelevant to my life for too many years. Unconsciously, something inside me rejected this notion and wanted to make it right.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be involved with what you have done.

It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Përditë shoh qartë e ma qartë dhe vuej thellë e ma thellë.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.