Quotes About Introspection

I had to do it for myself.

It was the part when you said that you do not know anybody, and how that encompasses even you.

I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me?

The animal looks at us, and we are naked before it. Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls?

He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.

Era un genio della tristezza, e in essa si tuffava distinguendone i molti fili, apprezzandone le sfumature più sottili. Era un prisma attraverso cui la tristezza poteva suddividersi enl suo infinito sprettro. Brod, inventrice delle 613 Tristezze

She was unhappy, although unconvinced that her unhappiness wouldn't be someone else's happiness. She felt unfulfilled desire—profound amounts of it—but presumably so did every other married and unmarried person. She wanted more, but didn't know if there was more to be found. Not knowing used to feel inspiring. It felt like faith. Now it felt agnostic. Like not knowing.

Seeing your own smallness is called insight Honoring your own tenderness is called strength

take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool...

I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

Porque - eu vos digo - temos olhos de ver e olhos de não ver, depende do estado do coração de cada um.

Yo no sabía si era yo quien siempre elegía mal las compañías o si la gente acababa siendo diferente de lo que yo pensaba" - Déjame que te cuente

El fracaso, si es que queremos llamarlo así, es la expresión que usamos para decir que el vínculo ha dejado de ser nutritivo para alguno de los dos. (No somos para todos todo el tiempo ni todos son para nosotros todo el tiempo.) Cada uno de los encuentros en mi vida ha sido como cada libro que leí: una lección de vida que me condujo a ser éste que soy.

Cuanto más te muestre de mí y más te escuche, más voy a saber de mí. Y cuanto más sepa de mí, de mejores maneras voy a estar a cargo de mi persona. Y cuanto mejor esté a cargo de mi persona, menos dependiente seré del afuera.

En el pasado, quien deseaba explorar los misterios más profundos de la vida se recluía en un monasterio o llevaba una vida ermitaña; en la actualidad, las relaciones íntimas se han convertido, para muchos de nosotros, en la nueva tierra indómita que nos coloca cara a cara con todos nuestros dioses y demonios.

la confusión conduce siempre a la certeza si uno se da el tiempo suficiente de permanecer confuso.

existe la tendencia a creer que es el otro el que «nos da» su amor. Sin embargo, en la práctica, el otro sólo es un espejo del amor que damos. Desde este punto de vista amar es encontrar al ser que es capaz de reflejar el amor que irradiamos.

desde el punto de vista psicológico, es imposible que yo pueda querer a alguien sin quererme a mí.

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