Quotes About Introspection

but I never shall be very wise, I'm afraid.

for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.

It's very singular how hard it is to manage your mind,' said Demi, clasping his hands round his knees, and looking up at the sky as if for information upon his favorite topic.

i?do?not ?pretend ?to?be ?wise ?. . ? but?i?am observing ??? and?i see?a ? ?great deal ? more ?than you?would ?imagine

Louisa May Alcott

I know I ought to be contented, but I'm not. My life is very comfortable, but so quiet and uneventful, I get tired of it and want to launch out as the others have, and do something, or at least try. ... I'd like to know what my gift is, said Rose .... The art of living for others so patiently and sweetly that we enjoy it as we do the sunshine, and are not half grateful enough for the great blessing. [said Uncle Alec.]

Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

i do not pretend to be wise , but i am observing . . and i see a great deal more than you think

If Marmee shook her fist instead of kissing her hand to us, it would serve us right, for more ungrateful wretches than we are were never seen," cried Jo, taking a remorseful satisfaction in the snowy walk and bitter wind.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

she often "wept a little weep

ought to have read more, for I find I don't know anything, and it mortifies me.

He was tired of books, and found people so interesting now

How stupid you are child! He meant you of course. Did he? And Jo opened her eyes as if the thought had never occurred to her before.

Some days must be dark and sad and dreary.

I planned to spend mine in new music," said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle-holder.

I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked

El viento silbaba por encima de las abatidas colinas, el agua caía en forma de lúgubre llovizna, y el ocaso se cernió sobre el paisaje. Pero los ojos del hombre tranquilo penetraban la niebla con la misma calma que si tuviera ante sí un radiante arco de promesas extendiéndose por la grisura del cielo.

Para mí yo no busco otra corona que la que todos pueden pretender, ni ansío la conquista de otro mundo que el que está dentro de mi propio ser.

interesting things to say. I had just read the line, 'It can

She had a talent for looking at a person with no expression - you filled in whatever you felt guiltiest about.

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.