Quotes About Introspection

She acknowledged a heightened sensitivity to the world around her. "I think I have felt fear & anxiety & sorrow in small doses for the first time in my life. I do so love being young & I don't very much want to be 18. Although I often behave in a completely idiotic & 'haywire' fashion—yet I feel I have grown up quite a lot in the last year. I am glad of it.

slothful not to compress your thoughts," he said.

There are some things I must try to say before the still watches come again in which the things unsaid hurt so and cry out in the heart to be uttered.

Oh tais-toi mon coeur." ("Be quiet, my heart.")

My life had become so dichotomized and compartmentalized, so off the tracks that I barely understood it myself. I couldn't tell him that Spade was Jekyll and Hyde, two men trapped inside one six-foot-three roiling meat suit. Nothing about my life was suited for picnic talk.

When she quieted the jet engine buzz of worries assaulting her brain, when she stopped thinking altogether and just felt, she knew this was right. Feeling the silence of peace and conviction was so foreign to her she wasn't even sure what to do with it.

But I figured every girl on the planet had found herself wishing she had a free pass inside a man's mind at one point or another. Maybe it was self-preservation that we didn't have such powers. It might be holy-crap creepy in there.

Who do you become when you've lost sight of who you are but the false you isn't one you can pretend to be anymore?

There is a danger when you leave the past behind, and reinvent your life, that at some point you'll look at yourself, and no longer recognize who you see.

Jess, I've got no business judging anyone. But I can offer you some advice if you don't mind. Sure. Though my palms start to sweat anticipating what he might say. Never ask someone to tell you who you are. You tell them.

Who do you become when you've lost sight of who you are, but the false you isn't one you can pretend to be anymore?

I don't want to see people as other people see them, I want to see them as I see them.

frequent spells of "ailing," during which there seemed to be nothing particularly wrong save a psychic maladjustment seeking a physical manifestation.

People really should cultivate the art of talking to themselves. They'd learn a lot about voices if they did.

We might say that both the artist and the neurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an external, active work project

Modern man became psychological because he became isolated from protective collective ideologies. He had to justify himself from within himself.

The healthy person, the true individual, the self-realized soul, the real man, is the one who has transcended himself.

The person has to learn to derive his self-esteem more from within himself and less from the opinions of others; he has to try to base it on real qualities and capacities, things he can make or do

William James said long ago, solitude is the greatest terror of childhood.

We noted that the ego delays responses in order to permit a richer reaction: it allows the organism to choose between several alternatives, reviewed in awareness in lieu of immediate action.

everybody has to think and see for himself, or the nations are doomed.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.) —SPINOZA

We did not create ourselves, but we are stuck with ourselves.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.)