Quotes About Introspection

Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness. If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.

ReacÈ›ia celorlalÈ›i la purtarea noastr? este comparabil? cu o oglind? pentru c? ne întoarce o imagine a noastr? pe care singuri nu suntem în stare s? o vedem. De asta ceilalÈ›i sunt indispensabili, ca s? ne dea ceva ce nu putem înÈ›elege singuri, imaginea propriului caracter. Cine sunt eu f?r? ca ceilalÈ›i s? îmi dea un indiciu?

1828 Turns forty. 'After his fortieth year,' he consoles himself, 'any man of merit Ã¢â'¬Â¦ will hardly be free from a certain touch of misanthropy.

prayer is when night descends over thought

n'allez pas trop vite.

Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

Though it is a sign of some maturity to know how to love and live alongside someone, it may be a sign of even greater maturity to recognise that this is something one isn't in the end psychologically really capable of – as a good portion of us simply aren't. Retiring oneself voluntarily, in order to save others (and oneself) from the consequences of one's inner emotional turmoil may be the true sign of a great and kindly soul.

Ai không c?m th?y h? th?n khi nhìn l?i b?n thân n?m ngoái thì có l? ng??i Ä'ó ?? h?c không ??.

Ai không c?m th?y h? th?n khi nhìn l?i b?n thân n?m ngoái thì có l? ng??i Ä'ó Ä'ã h?c không ??.

Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured.

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

A momentus but until then overlooked fact was making its first appearance: that I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island.

Proust was not well place to enjoy honest friendships. For a start, he had far too many true but unkind thoughts about people.

A momentous but until then overlooked fact was making its first appearance: that I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island.

What we complain of in others, others will complain of in us.

being jilted by a lover is a perfect introduction to the mechanisms of emotional dependency.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

there can be a savage edge.

I think the genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

If we accord importance to the kind of portraits which surround us, it is because we fashion our lives according to their example, accepting aspects of ourselves if they concur with what others mention of themselves.

What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame.

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not to look at his world through our eyes.

Crucial insights that we need to convey to ourselves can often be received only at night, like city church bells that have to wait until dark to be heard. During