The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked...

Așa-i de c nd lumea, că cine se introspectează prea mult, acela nu mai e de acord nici cu sine însuși, în cele din urmă, iar cine nu-i de acord cu sine însuși, acela nu-i...

But darling yesterday I was a different person, today I see you for what you are.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn

Even if you think you’re doing well and have it all figured out, there is a voice you will always inevitably hear at some point which nags at you and says “but wait…” Don’t ever...

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Most people like mirrors; what they do not like, is people, who are mirrors.

I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Who is this guy taking care of my oral hygiene?

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines...

Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.

If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in...

The temperature is very cold” (a simple statement of fact), then our expressions, and therefore attitude, are not negative. Sustaining an alert state in which self-awareness becomes possible gives us a chance to discover the...

I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact...

What if deep down inside you…you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were?

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there’s anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what’s next. This is the place and...

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and...

The reluctant will heed wisdom only when the confidence exhibited by the righteous awakens the seed of introspection,and the awareness of acountability, into the psyche of the uncertain.

When corruptors blame each other, the strongest wins.Apabila sesama koruptor saling menyalahkan, yang terkuat menang.

Talking with Elaine like that, with no judgment from her or anything, seemed to bring my feelings more to the surface so I could look at them. I love times like that; you don’t get...

If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects,” I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination does...

I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my “real” life again at last. That is what is strange – that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life...

Shadows are our Dark Selves brought to Light.

If people respect your age and not your personality, then it’s time for you to do some urgent introspection.

He had too much to think about. In the course of his long, useless marches he had sunk deeper and deeper into the tangle of his botched life as into a clump of brambles, and...

In my experience, I’ve found myself to be inexperienced. But at least I found myself. Some people spend their lives searching in vain.

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler,...

How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn’t have the courage to fix it?

Investigation in our own life is far more rewarding than investigating life of other’s.

I want to find myself as a person, and I’ve enlisted the help of my clone to aid me in this. It’s like finding Waldo, except I’m only half wearing the red and white sweater,...

We shouldn’t hide behind anger or anonymity when reliving the past because all that’s happened and all those who belong in our past are part of our story.

Introspection precedes constructive criticism.Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun.

Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way. They take immediate selfish interests and enmesh them within transcendent, spiritual meanings. Love becomes a...

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?…But where did that knowledge exist? Only...

Don’t call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!

Shall I run back into the desert … and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the...

It is always easy to wake up a person who is fast asleep, but never those people who pretend to be deep in sleep.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes,...

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.