Quotes About Introspection

I find it extremely impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox.

The problem was I didn't want just anyone's company. I wanted the company of funny, smart, like-minded people. That's when I realized something about myself: I would rather be lonely than bored.

writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quiet, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

It was perfectly me: pleasant enough, and then receding from immediate concern.

If my childhood, teens, and twenties were about wanting people to like me, now I want people to know me. So,

Once again, a pang of conscience tweaked the skin around my eyes.

Maybe part of the problem is that you're not making enough time for reflection and solitude and prayer. Are you avoiding God, Joel? Are you trying to run from Him the way Shadow has run from us?" He

If you don,t understand my silence . How you will understand my words.

How come we kept celebrating things that made me feel bad?

A good master leads you to the true master within. Only that master, who is your own higher self, can adequately answer all questions.

To simply be ourselves is the greatest challenge but the simplest spiritual technique. A

She withdrew into herself, First writing just for one, Then touching thousands. She incarnated ghosts, hurt, and joy Into paper-and-ink stories of wonder

The mind that turns ever outward Will have no end to craving. Only the mind turned inward Will find a still-point of peace.

A true master is indifferent to the ways of society.

What facets of your personality are encumbrances? What personal aspects prevent you from being independent? These are the areas that will define your self-cultivation, for you must strive to stand alone.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

Em persegueixo més ençà dels sentits perquè hi ha sempre algun íntim espai de mi que em manca.

Tinc ancorades a no sé quin port les barques del retorn, i m'avindria potser a desarborar-ne tots els pals a canvi de no res, perquè ara ja no em sedueix intensament cap ruta i em fa falta ben poc per sobreviure.

Ara faig d'angle estèril de la llum. Si em criden, tanmateix, diré que encara no estic a punt, que tinc certes foteses per endegar, mig de nit, mig de dia, que de moment, sisplau, amb mi no hi comptin, que encara em queda molt passat per viure.

Cansadament potser, o tal vegada més allunyat que mai del joc que incita, espero algun senyal, una paraula o un gest tal volta que reveli tota la densitat del buit que m'acompanya i em torni la perduda lucidesa.

Potser si torno de puntetes m'acollirà la mateixa divagatòria complaença que enyorava, i no hauré de retre comptes d'una tan llarga absència. Pugnen els versos per obrir-se pas entre la fronda de vells moviments obscurs i contumaços, però l'ordre restablert amb esforç és una melodia que ja puc repetir amb dits insegurs només tancant els ulls.

Aquest ponent exhibeix una impúdica proclivitat a l'èmfasi, com si no estigués condemnat, com tots, a caure en un oblit indestriable i trist.

El buit és un preu alt per sobreviure quan no voldries més que reposar i beure a petits glops la poca vida que et falta per viure. Consirós i lúcid et revoltes - contra què No pots fugir de tu mateix ni ho vols. Tota pregunta ha esdevingut inútil i ho seria també tota resposta.