Quotes About Introspection

Dan akhirnya, pertanyaan yang selalu kembali padaku adalah: Bagaimana mungkin aku, dari semua orang lain, menghakimi seseorang atas masa lalu mereka?

Her eyes traced the sleek shape of the table's legs, the sinuous curves of its corners, the gleam of its reflective, dark brown surface. She noticed that every time she breathed out, the surface fogged, and she disappeared from her father's table.

A person has to have a flaw somewhere.

one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart.

Bir baÅŸkas?n?n yüreÄŸini, yüreÄŸinden geçenleri yarg?larken, kiÅŸi bir miktar da olsa alçakgönüllülükten ve yard?mseverlikten nasibini alm?? olmal?.

You've always been a tourist here, you just didn't know it.

Tetapi, kupikir, alasan terbesar mengapa aku tidak memedulikan masa lalu Soraya adalah karena aku memiliki masa laluku sendiri. Aku tahu segalanya tentang penyesalan.

But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage.

One is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner working of another person's heart.

In the mirror, Mariam had her first glimpse of Rasheed: the big, square, ruddy face; the crooked nose; the flushed cheeks that gave the impression of sly cheerfulness; the watery, bloodshot eyes; the crowded teeth, the front two pushed together like a gables roof; the impossible low hairline, barely two fingers widths above the bushy eyebrows; the wall of thick, coarse, salt-and-pepper hair. Their gazes met briefly in the glass and slid away. This is the face of my husband, Mariam thought.

Pero la gente por lo general tiene una idea muy equivocada de sí misma. Creen que viven en función de lo que desean, cuando en el fondo lo que los guía es aquello que temen. Aquello que no desean.

tuve la sensación de que estaba viendo dos caras al mismo tiempo, la que conocía, la que era mi primer recuerdo, y otra, una segunda que estaba escondida bajo la superficie

But in my quiet moments, in those long rides in the back of a bus or the bed of a truck, my mind always circles back to…

They made her aware of her own lowliness, her plain looks, her lack of aspirations, her ignorance of so many things.

Bilo bi pogrešno re?i da je Sohrab bio tih. Tišina je mir. Tišina je okretanje dugmeta za glasno?u života. Muk je pritiskivanje dugmeta za isklju?ivanje. Gašenje. Svega.

J'aurais du etre plus gentille - I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret.

Belki de yüreksizlerin as?l cezas? budur: gerçeÄŸi, iÅŸ iÅŸten geçtikten sonra, art?k yap?labilecek hiçbir ÅŸey kalmad???nda görmek, anlamak.

Ik deed een stap achteruit en het enige wat ik zag was regen door de ramen die wel van smeltend zilver leken

I wondered how and when I'd become capable of causing this kind of pain.

E, no final das contas, a pergunta que acabava sempre se impondo era: como é que eu, entre todas as pessoas, poderia punir alguém pelo seu passado?

shade of a wall, listlessly fingering their prayer beads

Es curioso, Markos, pero la gente por lo general tiene una idea muy equivocada de sí misma. Creen que viven en función de lo que desean, cuando en el fondo lo que los guía es aquello que temen. Aquello que no desean.

There were times when, like a word on the tip of her tongue, Mariam's face eluded her. But now, in this place, it's easy to summon Mariam behind the lids of her eyes.

One is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart.