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Introspection Quotes

"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself"
Plato
"In desire, we experience a paradox: we seek the other in order to find ourselves."
Esther Perel
"When we seek the gaze of another, it isn’t always our partner we are turning to—it’s the other in ourselves."
Esther Perel
"Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Aside from that, I have within me all the dreams of the world."
Fernando Pessoa
"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn’t to feel – it’s to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost."
Fernando Pessoa
"I don’t know who you are now, when we are not together"
Pablo Neruda
"You can make yourself love, not like way back but always I seem to know I am an exception"
Anne Sexton
"Even so at times I think I will never be like other people but is this exactly what I would want"
Anne Sexton
"The worst thing about being famous? I think it's what everybody says - the lack of privacy and the idea that you're always on display."
Madonna
"The best ideas come from examining problems that are interesting to you."
Satya Nadella
"Life is whatever we make of it. The traveler is the journey. What we see isn't what we see but what we are."
Fernando Pessoa
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted"
Bertrand Russell
"I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen"
John Steinbeck
"Do I dare disturb the universe"
T. S. Eliot
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