Quotes About Introspection

Mármost ha az a helyzet, hogy mindenki tök, csak mi állunk a vártán ragyogón, okosan, mint a nap, akkor azért érdemes gyanút fogni.

Nekem szavakról szavak jutnak az eszembe és viszont.

Henry glanced hastily at the mirror. Yes, he did look rather old. He must have overdone some of the lines on his forehead. He looked something between a youngish centenarian and a nonagenarian who had seen a good deal of trouble.

Do you know what it's like to absolutely, positively, and wholeheartedly hate yourself? Let me say something nice (for a change): I hope not.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Instead of unthinkingly rushing into action, we can ask ourselves: Do I really want to do this? Is anybody going to be hurt by this? Will I like having done this?

The human being...is a book reading itself.

Life is a competition, but it is not a race against anyone else. The real journey is against yourself and the true victory is being able to maintain your humanity.

Do we dare to be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? That is that question that counts.

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, detective independiente, se tomó el cuerpo con las manos y se estrechó en un autoabrazo solitario, en la oscuridad lunar y la lluvia. «No contaban con mi astucia», se dijo, citando al Chapulín Colorado. Su reserva de frases absurdas era enorme.

Después de los cuarenta empezaba a desconfiar de la memoria, hasta de la mejor memoria, la de las buenas intenciones.

Les hommes les plus sains d'esprits ne sont que des fous tranquilles.

We were looking, looking, always looking for something. That's what we've been doing all night tonight. Going from one place to another, looking. What are we looking for? Go home, Eddie, go to bed. I'll take Arnold home, explain to everybody he was drunk, he didn't mean anything.

I'm a little, short, fat fellow, and girls don't go for me, that's all. I'm not like you. I mean, you joke around, and they laugh at you, and you get along fine. I just stand around like a bug. What's the sense of kidding myself? Everybody's always telling me to get married. Get married. Get married. Don't you think I wanna get married? I wanna get married. They drive me crazy. Now, I don't wanna wreck your Saturday night for you, Angie. You wanna go somewhere, you go ahead. I don't wanna go.

I don't know. Sometimes, I look at Helen. And she's a nice girl and all that. She's pretty. But I feel I'm missing something. I look at Helen, I say: "I must have felt something special to marry this girl.

ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting here like unconquerable savages, men missing their dogs and talking pointlessly unless talk to the dead. let's sharpen something.

A whole section of the family tree is pruned and primped and assessed as I politely sit there. Overall, I detect that the tree is fine: its leaves gently turning in the breeze of life. We have no scandal blight, no limb-wrenching storms of fate, no bad apples. I wonder what it is like when the Kennedys sit around for a disk check like this.

MRS. HOLLINGSWORTH LIKES TO traipse. Her primary worry is thinning pubic hair, though this has not happened yet. She is bothered that a thought of this sort could occur to her at all, let alone with some frequency. She enjoys a solidarity with fruit. She is wistful for the era in which hatboxes proliferated, though a hatbox is not something even her grandmother may have owned.

If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

You don't have to be a philosopher; you just have to want to know who you are

To be a meditator doesn't simply mean to live in a cave; it means to train oneself in the true meaning [of the natural state].