Quotes About Introspection

From first days in school, we are taught to listen to everything and everyone but ourselves, to take in all our clues about living from the people and powers around us.

I now genuinely believe that self-knowledge and self-reflection is invaluable to doing good work in this world.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

?i vai, biet plugar pe p?mânturile ei roz È™i roditoare, nu m? în?lÈ›am niciodat? la nivelul delirului ei.

Le pire, c'est de rater la merveille par peur ou paresse et de rester claquemuré en soi, dans le provincialisme de son identité.

Uno se enfrenta a la peor prueba que existe: uno mismo. He conocido a muchos bravucones que se desinflaban llegado el momento.

Le livre est un morceau de silence dans les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit se tait. Celui qui lit ne rompt pas le silence.

Un livre est un peu de silence entre les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit calme. Celui qui le lit ne rompt pas le silence.

Os homens desesperados vivem em cantos. Todos os homens que amam vivem em cantos. Todos os leitores de livros vivem em cantos.

Por vezes é suficiente a bruma ou a montanha. Por vezes uma árvore que se inclina sob as rajadas do vento é suficiente. Por vezes a noite é suficiente, e não o sonho que torna presente à alma aquilo que lhe falta ou que perdeu.

Il dit en soufflant : "Je pense que toute ma vie j'ai été jaloux. La jalousie précède l'imagination. La jalousie, c'est la vision plus forte que la vue.

Lire c'est errer. La lecture est l'errance.

Ce sont tous les plaisirs du monde qui se retirent en nous disant adieu.

Por lo menos no supe encontrar otra cosa que me consolase tanto del pequeño exceso de soledad que se había refugiado en mí.

Paul, ¿te acuerdas de que cuando estabas tan mal, antes de que comenzases el psicoanálisis, decías que quienes no plantan cara a su dolor se condenan a padecerlo sin fin?

J'aime la lecture car c'est la seule conversation à laquelle on peut couper court à tout instant, et dans l'instant.

I like to tell women to seek out the "puzzle" and the "gem" within the man. The puzzle is, "What makes this person tick? Do I like it?" The gem is, "What is this person's gift? Humor? Honesty? Intelligence?

A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.

America's media seem utterly lacking in introspection. Do they understand why so many people hate them so? Do they care? Are they so smugly self-righteous and self-regarding they cannot see?

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

none of this talk. A week or so later, thinking about Mark's words, Randy had decided to go into

Verla says that nobody thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.

Leave me be! Leave me be!" she shouted; and with her stick, she beat at her dreams. She had passed the children without noticing them. And then Pidge was not afraid of her any longer. He realized that her anger was directed only against herself and her own thoughts.