Quotes About Introspection

If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big 'however'- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.

Don't imitate our life. Please learn from our life. Build up your own new life. Just be as much like yourself as you can be.

It is like what Voltaire said, "Il faut cultiver son jardin": You must cultivate your own garden.

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

Hell is other people, said Jean-Paul Sartre. Don't take this the wrong way, but I think he means you.

In short, this was a period in which the phrase 'you're never alone with a good book' started to sound less like a promise and more like a threat.

I had sadness for breakfast.

Work for peace. Think before you say something. Are you making things better or just taking out your trash. The point is growth. Constant process of reclamation. Clearing out the deadwood and making room for things to grow.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

become the person the person you're looking for is looking for

personal shortcomings is often rooted in some sort of insecurity. This can be easy to see in others but next to impossible to see in ourselves. It takes a certain amount of personal security to admit weakness.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

Are you the person the person you're looking for is looking for?

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I'm afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Lo peor que tiene la tristeza es que es ciega; y lo peor que tiene la cólera es que ve demasiado.

Out there's a moral law. Within I've only stars!

CAÍDA Y me vuelvo a caer desde mí mismo al vacío, a la nada. ¡Qué pirueta! ¿Desciendo o vuelo? No lo sé. Recibo el golpe de rigor, y me incorporo. Me toco para ver si hubo gran daño, mas no me encuentro. Mi cuerpo ¿dónde está? Me duele sólo el alma. Nada grave.

Do we police because we fear we can be savages? Do our barricades from each other belie the blinds that keep us strangers to ourselves?

We all feel shame when we're sitting on the cushion and stuff pops up in our head.

You are never more honest than when you are sad.

How come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind.