Quotes About Introspection

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

She catches sight of herself in the mirror. Go in fear of hyperbole)

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves

Like your insides are too close to the surface?

that just because you never thought about someone didn't mean they weren't inside you.

Take stock of who we are and what we have and then use it for good.

That's easy. The same thing we all must do. Take stock of who we are, and what we have, and then use it for good.

I want to know what to do," he hears himself say, and, like the decision to write to the co-pilot's wife, the statement is a relief. He wants to know what to do. She taps the center of his hand. "That's easy. The same thing we all must do. Take stock of who we are, and what we have, and then use it for good.

When she's anxious, she replays moments from her life, perhaps to convince herself that she has a history.

When in doubt, read books," Principal Arundhi says. He speaks quickly, as if worried this might be his last opportunity to share his thoughts. "Educate yourself. Education has always saved me, Edward. Learn about the mysteries.

Edward. It lives under your skin. It's not going away. It's part of you and will be part of you every moment until you die. What you've been working on, since the first time I met you, is learning to live with that.

He watches his new life walk into his old life.

She had screwed up, not him. It made her sad that her vast experience, even her marathon dances with men, hadn't left her any the wiser.

But I want you to understand that there can't be information about you—that is true—that you don't already know. Your life takes place in your skin. No one else knows a goddamn thing,

I'm either becoming Zen or more depressed, he thinks.

Some cover themselves with a jacket or blanket; like turtles, they withdraw into their shells.

cut himself out of his own life, the

their youth and their ignorance of who they were and what they really wanted.

that just because you never thought about someone didn't mean they weren't inside you." ? Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

What do you want? Sylvie wouldn't have asked this question before, because she would have been afraid of the answer, but she wanted to be deeply and truly herself and to experience the world in the deepest and truest way.

It occurred to him, for the first time, that just because you never thought about someone didn't mean they weren't inside you.

Lonely is a funny thing,' she said slowly. 'It's almost like another person. After a while, it'll keep you company if you'll let it

Sometimes I look at my own movies

A well-informed mind,' he would say, 'is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.