Quotes About Introspection

I wished I could show Sunny the inside of my mind. To peel back the flesh and bone and white matter and show only the raw truth of me.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

A man who needs a mirror is looking for something.

I learned that I wasn't happy. It's a terrifying thing to admit. It puts everyone around you in a state of paralysis because they think that they are somehow responsible for your sadness and can fix it. Of course they cannot. I know happiness exists somewhere and if I knew where, I would go to it and claim it. I realize I have spent my life reacting to things and not initiating them.

The world was noisy . As Ciro looked around, he was the only person who seemed to be listening.

You know what my mother always told me? ...That all the answers to all your questions are already inside of you. You just have to listen.

you must dig constantly for meaning in the sorrow of this life, and that this sorrow must galvanize you, not define you.

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

Every man carries Two Bags about with him, one in front and one behind, and both are packed full of faults. The Bag in front contains his neighbours' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.

Every person, according to an ancient legend, is born into the world with two bags suspended from their neck: all bags in front full of their neighbors' faults, and a large bag behind filled with his own faults. Hence it is that people are quick to see the faults of others, and yet are often blind to their own failings.

Da bi vidjeli smrt neprijatelja, neki su spremni vidjeti i vlastitu.

Are you carrying anything that could be dangerous for the other passengers? O just my heart!

All night I keep the heart shut I am waiting for a greater madness To declare myself

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying attention.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?

You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

when he closed his eyes, the torrent of longing waiting inside was so thick he thought he might drown in it.

But truthfully? Let me tell you what I honestly think. I think, maybe he hasn't even noticed that I'm gone. But. I have.

One could not spend one's life in the imaginings of another life.