Quotes About Introspection

went wrong with Celia, too, she

around the open windows, but it was too

It was me—the weak-willed, easily seduced, insecure girl I'd become. I was the obstacle I'd be carrying around with me for the rest of my life.

felt the depth of my deception. What had happened to my self-respect? My integrity?

Sometimes there's so much to say that you don't know where to begin.

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it. What we're searching for is what we lack.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder are mirrors a waste of time?

I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.

Of course I loved books more than people.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

My concern always has been with how—not why—people make transitions out of relationships. Many times the people I talked to did not understand why themselves. Even when they thought they knew, the reasons changed, so that what seemed to explain it at one time often did not seem important six months later.

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

And for the rest of her life, the girl, the woman, she never made a mark on anyone either that proved anything absolutely for certain, that she could ever see, about what she had done at any time, and this does not break her heart. "Cloud

Rather, it is from the blather, rather, I am made.

I have to put the worst of her into her.

My husband said to me while I was swooning in his arms, 'Why are all the longest dances the draggiest?' I took this to mean that he has not loved me for a very long time. Everything means something, or it does not. I have expressed an opinion. Every effect has a source that is not unfamiliar. It's all so evil. ("The Uncanny")

Never make choices simply because someone told you what is right. Know yourself, know your situation, know God for yourself, and decide what is right for your life.

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.