Quotes About Introspection

When your heroes reveal themselves as human, it exposes your own flaws, too. Naivete, mainly, a willingness to believe in someone, something.

The rich and vivid imagining that served her so well on the page was torture in her real life sometimes, if she let her thoughts sweep her away.

Within our own way, we all know the answers to the questions that we seek … it is quite simple. We have the knowledge before we come here to our earthly existence. We have been given the way forward and the answers that we need; we just have to look deep within ourselves and know that they are there. Similar to reading hidden messages that are encrypted, we have only to uncover the meaning of the code to unlock a vast amount of knowledge and information. Ben

Is my name dorothy? No Then why do u think munchkins could help me?

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.

Watching TV puts your own hell into a different perspective, if that's what you want. Today I do.

Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.

I saw myself.... In the time I watched, I saw strength—and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly, much. Of intentions, many good ones; but many more left undone. In this, alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this, too, I saw.... Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.

But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

Is a man truly what he see himself to be?' 'Only if what he sees is true.

alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging

It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

Vi är varken onda eller goda. Vi är helt enkelt intresserade av saker precis som det de är.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

They have never known pain, he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely.

A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. There is no fellow ticket-holder in the next seat.

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

Mata batin yang merupakan berkah kesepian

Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, Might we be human? But Fastidious did not reply.

They sat silently for a moment.

Ellen was motionless on the sidewalk