Quotes About Introspection

they always gave good reasons for the things they did, and then when they got old they lost their reasons for doing anything and sat on the bench in front of the harness shop and had words for the reasons other people had but had forgotten what the reasons were.

But he was saying, '--and so I'm not going to make any speech--' In his old voice, his own voice. Or was that his voice? Which was his true voice, which one of all the voices, you would wonder.

So I tried to make what amends I could for being what I was...

And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's

If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of. I had got hold of the

She kept her looks very well and continued, in a rather severe way, to pay attention to her dress. There were moments now when her laugh sounded a little hollow and brittle, the laughter of nerves not of mirth or good spirits. Occasionally in a conversation she seemed to lose track and fall into a self-absorption, to start up overwhelmed by embarrassment and unspoken remorse.... She was pushing thirty-five. But she could still be good company.

I studied her face, and for the moment just did that and let all the questions just slide away, like something dropped into the mist and water below us to slide away in the oily silence of the current. — Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men (Harcourt, Brace, & Co., 1946)

It is human defect—to try to know oneself by the self of another. One can only know oneself in God and in His great eye.)

The grandfather's clock in the corner of the room, I suddenly realized, wasn't getting any younger. It would drop out a tick, and the tick would land inside my head like a rock dropped in a well, and the ripples would circle out and stop, and the tick would sink down the dark. For a piece of time which was not long or short, and might not even be time, there wouldn't be anything. Then the tock would drop down the well, and the ripples would circle out and finish.

ÄŒlovÄ›k se dívá tam, kam jde a kde je, a v?bec tomu nerozumí. Pak se ale oto?í, podívá se, kde už byl, a za?ne se mu vynoÃ…â"¢ovat jistý vzorec. A pokud ten vzorec promítne do budoucna, m?že pak ob?as na nÄ›co zajímavého pÃ…â"¢ijít.

For many people, this would be the point where one might do some soul-searching introspection, some painful confronting of truths as a means of personal growth. Being a scientist, I decided to avoid this by Studying the Subject. Donning my lab coat and postponing a microscope nearby ,I started making phone calls.

la vida es un viaje que va desde la cabeza hasta el corazón.

Adrina, it is time you mended your own soul. Cry, cry until there are no more tears in you.

It's not what we say out loud that determines our lives. It's what we whisper to ourselves that has the most power.

The only person who determines the thoughts you choose to believe about yourself, is you.

No matter what anyone is saying to you from outside, the most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself on the inside.

Si descubres que estás atrapado en un agujero en la tierra... deja de cavar.

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something, and grow wiser.

Your first step in taking responsibility is to quit blaming others and quit blaming the world.

If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something, and grow wiser.

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The most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself. When

they stay busy as a way of avoiding something they do not want to face.

as you ponder your choice.