Quotes About Introspection

O mundo é o verdadeiro espelho em que o homem se busca. A arte não passa de um reflexo em que ele se encontra.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Vorbele sunt oglinda gandurilor pe care le nutresti.

Qu'entendez-vous par : l'intelligence ? - En général ? - Oui. Ferral réfléchit. - La possession des moyens de contraindre les choses ou les hommes. Gisors sourit imperceptiblement. Chaque fois qu'il posait cette question, son interlocuteur, quel qu'il fût, répondait par le portrait de son désir, ou par l'image qu'il se faisait de lui-même.

How can one make the best of one's life? By converting as wide a range of experience as possible into conscious thought.

"Know thyself" — a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to "know himself" would never become a butterfly.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves.

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game is finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

?kili yaln?zl?k, b?kk?nl??a, can s?k?nt?s?na kadar varmay?nca, duygular?n ve güvenin a??r a??r yükselmesini sa?lar, bu da bu yaln?zl??? payla?anlar? çok yakla?t?r?r.

What else can we do but garden our shadows while far away the universe burns and vanishes.

Por qué buscas la compañía en tus momentos de degradación? Vuélvete adicto de los vicios solitarios.

La música es cada uno de esos pedacitos que antes tuve en mí y los fui desprendiendo al azar. Yo estoy ante una cosa y pienso en miles. La música es la solución a lo que yo no enfrento, mientras pierdo el tiempo mirando la cosa: un libro (en los que ya no puedo avanzar dos páginas), el sesgo de una falda, de una reja. La música es también, recobrado, el tiempo que yo pierdo.

Qué te pasa?>>, y él <>

La lectura es la comunicación perfecta de acciones solitarias

cómo es que te pienso, región, y no estoy, cómo fue que te dejaste descubrir así de una, me encerraste en el descubrimiento y me dejaste fuera de ti

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.

Also, now that I know roughly who I am, I want to close my eyes and hide from it.

The tennis bag is a lot like your heart—you have to know what's in it at all times.

A pochi di noi è concessa la grazia di conoscere se stessi, e finché non ci riusciamo, la cosa migliore che possiamo fare è essere coerenti.