Quotes About Introspection

We tried to be less self-involved. We tried to look up from our dumb obsessions and notice other people. We tried to be open, for once. We tried not to be just another vaguely racist family. We tried to be enlightened. We tried to be good. We tried to be all of the things . . . we are not.

I know they say that's the way the cookie crumbles and all. But you can't help but wonder why there's any cookie-crumbling going on in the first place.

Whenever I feel like this, I am gentle with myself, pretend like I'm someone else, someone good. I walk on eggshells around myself, like I'm some fragile piece of porcelain you have to place quietly, deliberately back on the shelf.

Die meisten Menschen sind es ja nicht gewöhnt, sich wirklich selber ein Urteil zu bilden; es reicht ihnen vollkommen, wenn sie das von sich glauben können, während sie in Wirklichkeit Gedanken nachplappern, die sie irgendwo aufgeschnappt haben.

Life has many sides; sometimes we need a mirror to see them all" Andreas Simic

Only when we have lived life fully can we take inventory, and say we are done." Andreas Simic

The greatest journey in life you will undertake is the one for self awareness. Finding out who you are and what you stand for.

This concludes the story of my youth, Your Honor. I hope that you can see that I have been swayed since my birth by forces that are poorly countered with reason.

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Andrew Burstein

We may feel like victims but wonder if we are possibly coconspirators. At the very least, we selected a partner with these faults. Might we have also permitted these faults or even fostered them?

I am constantly telling my own story to myself, and these days that's about all the narrative flow I can handle.

she would often remind herself that her thoughts were free no matter how oppressive her life might sometimes feel.

Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was. Or so I tell myself; and for now, that is enough.

The cliché goes that at twenty a person has the face that God gave him, but at forty he has the face he has earned.

I'm rediscovering my backbone, which is a good start.

It's a strange but consistent trait of people who consider themselves unattractive. They look embarrassed if you suggest that they might be interested in someone; because they feel unworthy of receiving attention, they also deny that they would dare to give it.

Confronting this question takes us beyond a world where the line between good and evil is sharp and bright, into a gray confusion where navigation was soul-trying work.

He was a monk in an order of one.