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“She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Louis stared at her, nonplussed. He more than half suspected that one of the things which had kept their marriage together when it seemed as if each year brought the news that two or three of their friends' marriages had collapsed was their respect of the mystery--the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there was no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery. And no matter how well you thought you knew your partner, you occasionally ran into blank walls or fell into pits. And sometimes (rarely, thank God) you ran into a full-fledged pocket of alien strangeness, something like the clear-air turbulence that can buffet an airliner for no reason at all. An attitude or belief which you had never suspected, one so peculiar (at least to you) that it seemed nearly psychotic. And then you trod lightly, if you valued your marriage and your peace of mind; you tried to remember that anger at such a discovery was the province of fools who really believed it was possible for one mind to know another.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Her powerlessness even comforted her somehow. Knowing that she couldn't change things - that she didn't have a choice - made living it more bearable.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“There is something about being loved and protected by a parent (or guardian) knowing that I can be loved for who I am, not what I can do, or might one day become. Unfortunately it’s not usually like this in every single situation. From time to time, my parents made mistakes during my childhood. Possibly I was the mistake, or unwanted. But I don’t know. I had every material thing that I could have ever wanted, but there was still something missing, as if I felt distanced from my parents, or misunderstood, in the ways that they treated me. At times, I had felt completely loved and accepted by my parents, but for one reason or another, they were unable to care for me, provide for me, in some ways that would have been very important. Sometimes I feel like I am trying to make up for the experiences in life that were absent when I was a child.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“I had no room now for this fear, or for any other fear, because I was filled to the brim with music. And even when it was not literally (audibly) music, there was the music of my muscle-orchestra playing â€� “the silent music of the body,â€� in Harvey’s lovely phrase. With this playing, the musicality of my motion, I myself became the music â€� “You are the music, while the music lasts.â€� A creature of muscle, motion and music, all inseparable and in unison with each other â€� except for that unstrung part of me, that poor broken instrument which could not join in and lay motionless and mute without tone or tune.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing that my self-centered childhood was over. But it was not until I began to write, that I found the world out there revealing, because memory had become attached to seeing, love had added itself to discovery, and because I recognized in my own continuing longing to keep going, the need I carried inside myself to know - the apprehension, first, and then the passion, to connect myself to it. Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. This is, of course, simply saying that the outside world is the vital component of my inner life. My imagination takes its strength and guides its direction from what I see and hear and learn and feel and remember of my living world. But I was to learn slowly that both these worlds, outer and inner, were different from what they seemed to me in the beginning.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“Words are only containers like a canvas holds a painting.

What’s in the essence of the words you convey through the sound of your voice?”
― Andrew Neff, The Mind Game Company: The Players

“The afternoon our story begins, the quiet parts of being alive were the busiest: wind unlocking Windows; rainlight nudging curtains apart; fresh-cut grass tickling unsocked feet. Days like this made Alice want to set off on a great adventure.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Furthermore

“We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“La felicità non consiste nel mettersi al riparo dalla sofferenza, ma di integrarla al tessuto della nostra esistenza.”
― Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Invisible Love

“Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“And in order to understand ourselves, a crucial step is to acknowledge that the ‘selfâ€� is a fictional story that the intricate mechanisms of our mind constantly manufacture, update and rewrite. There is a storyteller in my mind that explains who I am, where I am coming from, where I am heading to, and what is happening right now. Like the government spin doctors who explain the latest political upheavals, the inner narrator repeatedly gets things wrong but rarely, if ever, admits it. And just as the government builds up a national myth with flags, icons and parades, so my inner propaganda machine builds up a personal myth with prized memories and cherished traumas that often bear little resemblance to the truth.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Memories are truths we have chosen.”
― C.E. O'Grady, Soft Inheritance

“Periods of silent solitude spent in introspective reflecting are sacred and a source of great strength and comfort. We can learn from listening to the rhythms of nature and from appreciating the eternal hush of the cosmos.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“An introspective person seeks to attain a pure state of consciousness by merging finitude in infinity and by expressing the rapture of the soul through the contemplation and adoration of beauty. In this brief interlude of time, I surrender to becoming a cog in the roadway, an insentient time traveler, a ward of eternity, a day-tripper, a nighttime dream weaver, a blip in the cosmos, a freebase glob of energy, an imaginable disk of bundled vitality that wants for nothing.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Arrangements. I remember his using the word arrangements. What a hateful word it is and all the things it stands for. The things in life that have grand words - Love - sex - life - death - hate - those aren't the things that govern existence at all. It's lots of other pettifogging, degrading things. Things you have to endure, things you never think about until they happen to you. Undertakers, arrangements for funerals, inquests. And servants coming into rooms and pulling the blinds down. Why should blinds be pulled down because Ellie was dead? Of all the stupid things!”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“Being everything that I am is the very thing I need to become so that I am fully equipped to explore everything that I am not. For if I stop at myself, the journey ended in the preparation.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“One advantage of being in a long-term relationship with someone whom exhibits a strong personality is that when caught in the conduit of their force field, the resultant propulsion propels us to see both them as well as oneself in clearer light, thereby, opening a person’s eyes for constructive personal change.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We keep on finding happiness but each moment is our happy moment.we are just being ignorant.”
― Sachin Panwar

“I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.”
― Oliver

“Reading, writing, listening to music, skipping rope, flying kites, taking long walks along the sea, hiking in the crisp mountain air, all serve a joint purpose: these self-initiated acts free us from the drudgery of life. These forms of physical and mental exercises release the mind to roam uninhibited, such collaborative types of mind and body actions take people away from their physical pains and emotional grievances. A reprieve from the crippling grind of sameness allows personal imagination to soar. Imagination, a form of dreaming, is inherently pleasant and restorative. It is within these moments of personal introspection stolen from the industry of surviving that humankind touches upon the absolute truth of life: that there must be something more to living then merely getting by; the fundamental human condition thirsts for a way to improve upon the vestment that shelters our self-absorbed lives.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“To attempt to know myself ‘apartâ€� from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a partâ€� of myself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The fact is that you don't know strangers well enough to reject them. if you don't want to go on the lunch date, it probably has more to do with you-your schedule, your unwillingness to meet someone new, your mood.”
― Matthew McKay, How To Communicate: The Ultimate Guide To Improving Your Personal and Professional Relationships

“Too often what I dislike in others is more about what I am and less about what I dislike in them. Therefore, if I make the changes in myself I’m less likely to criticize the the faults in another.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“By willingly confronting the darkest recesses of my being, I fear losing a precarious grip upon eroding sanity. By writing myself into an experimental state of mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion, I fear experiencing the wilting of personal endurance to face another day of introspective examination. One-step too far into the pitch-dark underworld of deconstructive self-scrutiny and a person might not survive. A person’s failure boldly to charge forward with all of their strength of mind when beckoned by the better angels of their nature might preclude that person from unraveling the very purpose of their being.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It is not that people fail to see change, they only fail to believe it.”
― A.Venkatasubramanian

“Out of Bounds Introspect

Digging their graves lifting hands as if they been to the cross, they'll find a way To rid the world of truth till the End of days serpents of darkness acting as light crawling stately among the sheep reducing truth into ashes frozen icon of truth now a distant reminder as mankind has forgotten the gateway of truth in the self-consuming womb of sin in what was once the church”
― John M Sheehan