Quotes About Introspection

107] Comme on dirait un gobe-mouche, un désœuvré, un oisif, qui bat l'eau pour faire des ronds, qui fume pour faire quelque chose et ne fait autre emploi de ses dix doigts que de soutenir le tuyau de sa pipe de l'air du monde le plus préoccupé.

I am who I am and that's who I am.

Exist? taine ale sufletului: oricât de mult s-ar îndep?rta de drumul cel drept un r?t?citor, orcât s-ar înr?i în sufletul s?u un criminal iremediabil, oricât ar persista în via?a sa dezm??at?, dac? îl dojene?ti ?i-i ar??i calit??ile, pe care chiar el le-a f?cut de ru?ine, totul se cutremur? f?r? voie în el ?i omul se simte zguduit.

Dar în?elept este cel c?ruia nu-i repugn? nici un caracter ?i, ?intuindu-l cu privirea scrut?toare, ajunge s?-l cunoasc? pân? la origine.

Niente è più bello che essere in tutto debitori soltanto a se stessi.

Don't blame the mirror if your mug's askew. —Popular saying

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!

I think that it is one of the most refined joys of this world to interchange thoughts, feelings, and impressions." Nikolay Gogol, The Diary of a Madman

Trying to look through someone's life is an equivalent of looking at the mirror. You see nothing but the reflected image of yourself

Eric the Evil scowled. Well, hell. He was jealous of himself.

We both know you can't tell your own story without exposing someone else's.

Anyone who says I have no regrets is either a psychopath or a liar.

How difficult it is to walk through the world with your insides intact.

place less walked on than any other spot in

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

There is something to be said for experiencing great art, or nature, by oneself; the absence of other people makes the enjoyment more pure, and one's perceptions grow acute and discerning.

being unable to initiate and maintain satisfying and enduring relationships; being unable to say no and stick to it; and other negative behaviors and attitudes with others as well as with the self-aborbed parent. Some try to work through their issues or concerns with mental health professionals, but find that it is just about impossible to adequately describe what their formative years were like.

You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait to improve others until we have seen ourselves as we are - and have changed.

Study the prison you have inadvertently built around yourself.

You'll never decide what you want until you've decided who you are.

imagination is a form of flagellation if a sensitive child lets it run wild ...

I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

But in the same way a man's nose and ears become exaggerated as he ages, so do the psychological issues that define him. We