Quotes About Introspection

My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.

Buddhist practice is about developing character. And relationships are the forum, the classroom, in which we learn how.

For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

The truth is that at the time, I didn't have a genuine awareness of why I was so pissed off or even specifically who I was pissed off at. I was just pissed off.

So, what I suggest you do is pay attention to what you're thinking and pay attention to what you're feeling. Know that these two things dictate the way you live your life. By focusing your attention internally as opposed to externally, you'll be able to be present enough to connect with any other living thing, which will also cause you to take responsibility for your life and how you live it. Will I judge you? Of course not! But I will observe.

I pledge to tell you the truth, to be kind, but sometimes to be blunt. Together, let's examine the stories you're making up to see how many of them are based in reality. Personally, prior to the age of 36, almost every story I had was based in a lie. But I'd like you to remember that it doesn't take nearly as many words to tell the truth as it does to bullshit somebody.

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. The function of a friend is to be a substitute for this defective self,

And to wish to be alone, or to drink alone, or to do anything else alone, is the first step to the supernatural: which, in its turn, is the first step to the stake or the crucifix.

In learning about a person, you learn something about the world and about yourself, and if you can handle what you learn, you can get closer, much closer to them.

To ask the hard question is simple.

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.

I have come to the conclusion, by way of various observations, that man is composed of a soul and a beast. These two beings are absolutely distinct, but closely fitted together, or one on top of the other, that the soul must have a certain superiority over the beast to be in a position to draw a distinction between them.

Who can explain the reasons for a daydream?

What a splendid piece of furniture an armchair is, of utmost importance and usefulness to a contemplative man. During those long winter evenings, it is often sweet and always advisable to stretch out luxuriously in one, far from the din of crowds. A good fire, a few books, some quills - what excellent antidotes to boredom!

Ave María Purísima: me acuso de ser yo por todas partes. O sea de querer siempre ser otra. Y hasta peor: conseguirlo.

Y ese es mi gran problema, paso mucho más tiempo imaginando las cosas que viviéndolas.

Y en el juego angustioso de un espejo frente a otro cae mi voz y mi voz que madura y mi voz quemadura y mi bosque madura y mi voz quema dura

Se joac? aerul de-a amintirea: duce cu el toate zgomotele ?i las?-n urm? numai oglinzi de t?cere s? ne putem privi anii ce s-au dus.

La soledad de la existencia humana no significa romper amarras con el resto del universo y convertirse en un eremita intelectual o metafísico: la soledad de la existencia humana consiste en un sentirse solo, y por ello, enfrentarse y encontrarse con el resto del universo entero.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.