Quotes About Introspection

So if she left you because you suck, she still did you a favor." "How is that?" "Because no one is happy living in a sick relationship, whether they're the weak link or the strong one. And if you're the weak link, this is your chance to learn that." "What are you, a marriage counselor?" "No. I'm a weak link.

To open the book of another's life requires great care, as the pages must be turned with delicacy and caution -- but it is usually worth the effort.

Is this hell, to be stuck in a continual loop of our greatest disappointments? [Richelle Bach's diary]

but a good writer knows when to shut up and listen.

Sometimes we need the darkness to reveal our light.

How did I come to such a dark place? I don't know where my road now leads but I fear the shadowlands that lie ahead. But it is not the darkness of the path I fear. Just the loneliness of the trail.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

I drifted just outside, contemplating the dark interior.

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

But thoughts don't care about truth and shit. They sit up in your mind and fuck with you whenever.

Richard Reeves

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

There are times I almost think I am not sure of what I absolutely know. Very often find confusion in conclusion I concluded long ago. In my head are many facts that, as a student, I have studied to procure. In my head are many facts of which I wish I was more certain I was sure.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

There's some things even Enlightenment won't change. If you're a son-of-a-bitch before you visit the Absolute, you'll still be a son-of-bitch after.

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

I've always known that there's more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn't regret that he isn't more fully understood?

What a wonderful person I am!