Quotes About Introspection

If I'm who I am because I'm who I am and you are who you are because you are who you are, then I'm who I am and you're who you are. If on the other hand, I am who I am because you're who you are, and if you're who you are because I'm who I am, then I am not who I am and you're not who you are....

All men and women go through the same fog.

Someday someone should make a study of the silence that falls inside a car when you're returning home after having flaunted your well-being, partly to edify the company, partly to deceive yourself. It's a silence that tolerates no sound, not even the radio, for who in that mute war of opposition would dare to turn it on?

The world shrivels me day by day.

Is there a life outside oneself? Is there a reality outside oneself?

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

Still, how I nearly felt. In the midst of all that looking.

Grey faces in libraries around the world mask inner lives of considerable emotional volatility. We know

And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.

What if reality (as perceived) were simply an extension of the self? Wouldn't that color the way each individual experiences the world?

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

And then I think that while America was busy patting itself on the back and beating its chest,

Spider-man: My gosh! There's a real human being under all that macho? Punisher: Yes, I'm human. It's my greatest weakness. But I don't let it stop me. And that's my greatest strength.

existential overload

as we think, so we become.

We don't stop thinking about ourselves the whole time. Even when this makes us unhappy and uptight. If we focus too much on ourselves, we make ourselves sick. We have this constant inner chatter going morning, noon, and night, this inner monologue. But paradoxically, the more we are able to think about making other beings happy, the happier we become ourselves

Thinking too much about oneself is a cause of much suffering," the Dalai Lama said. "Anxiety, depression, resentment, fear—these become much worse with too much attention to the self. The mantra Me, me, me is not so good.

everything depends on mind.

Aminte?te-?i de cuvintele lui Buddha: De?i un singur om poate învinge în b?t?lie o mie de oameni de o mie de ori, cel care se învinge pe sine este cel mai mare r?zboinic.

Naše prožívaní reality je spíš projekcí naší vlastní mysli, a to mnohem víc než si p?ipouštíme.

renunciation is the start of our inner journey. Instead of fixating on external circumstances, we look within.