Quotes About Introspection

It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.

But I didn't want to share everything yet… I needed that time alone with it first, that delicious time where you replay every moment, where you make what has happened more real and also less—it becomes fact the more you repeat it, but it becomes story, too.

I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life.

He's going for wisdom but the real wisdom is knowing there sometimes isn't any.

The past is a good place for the past.

the sometimes brave but searching girl….

You wanted more from people sometimes. And sometimes,you wanted more from yourself.

Once again, I am translucent. I could break against rocks. I am ten thousand miles down and ten thousand miles across and around and it's too far and too long and too deep, but there is no black-haired body with wide, soft brown eyes looking into mine and seeing exactly who I am.

I learned something about truth—that truth has an urgency. It forces itself up sometimes, disregarding your need not to look, brought to the surface by that part of us that looks out for our own safety and well-being, if only we'd listen.

It's weird to have him paying attention after years of not paying attention.

Knowing takes its own time. I swear sometimes you've gotta get really, really uncomfortable before it shows up.

read books—devouring them with the speed of two people famished for words, ideas, and beautiful sentences that make you feel everything.

One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

Anytime I was denying my inner self, I knew absolutely nothing.

Look through the eyes of your highest self. What do you see?

Listen to yourself and you are heard.

How you feel after watching something indicates not what you watched but where you are at.

When we think, we hurt. When we feel, we heal.

Be your best company.

Writers are cut open on the page.

Take your ego out of your story.

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question.

No one knows a man better than himself.