226 Quotes About Self-reflection

What enables him to think of himself as sane is only a certain fragile chemical good fortune, but he knows he would be very much in the market for a tragedy if ever life chose to test him properly.

Once I've decided that I'm in love with all of someone -- once I stop making value judgments about this thing being good or that being bad -- it gets better. I can just be in love.

He once fantasized that his worries would be stilled if he lived elsewhere, if he attained a few professional goals, if he had a family. But nothing has ever made a difference. He is, he can see, anxious to the core, in his most basic make-up: a frightened, ill-adjusted creature.

Eliza wondered how many of her decisions were basically points of honour. Throughout her life, her job at the university, the bicycles and vegetarianism, even her haircut seemed as if they were chosen in reaction to the opinions of an invisible audience. She had become the sort of person she approved of but she wasn't sure she had chosen anything she actually wanted.

Not everyone dares to know what people think about them.

I know there are things I haven't survived I know there are people in this world who have had to work really hard to survive me, I don't ever want to take that lightly But I want the heavy to anchor me brave, to anchor me loving, to anchor me in something that will absolutely hold me to my word When I tell Cupid I intend to keep walking out to the tip of his arrow,to bend it back towards myself,to aim for my goodness; 'til the muscle in my chest tears from the stretch of becoming.

Lessons are learned by acknowledging the grossest and cruelest parts of ourselves.

I didn't seem to know anyone as well as I thought I did. But I wonder now if maybe you can't ever truly know another person. Maybe all you can do is hope that one day, you'll know yourself.

A thought came to me. What do I think about the date with Rafe? Here I am thinking about what everyone else would think, and I haven’t taken even a second to have my own reaction. Weird.