Quotes About Self-examination

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

God is not asking me to number my days to increase my pace but rather to examine my route, not to increase my efficiency but to see where I must make course corrections in heart, character, and actions.

We can never see our own faces directly, never look straight into our own eyes.

j'étais seul au milieu de cette multitude, pris au piège comme une araignée qui se serait enfermée dans sa propre toile.

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

Miroir de l'Ame Pecheresse, Mirror of a Lost Soul.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

examination. "Sometimes

Todo mi esplendor caía en la ignorancia, en un no querer mirarme

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

To write your memoirs is to draw up a balance sheet of your life so far.

May God help us to judge ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though He was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through His poverty, be made rich. "Lord, God, speak to my own heart and give me to know Thy Holy will and the joy of walking in it. Amen.

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

It is a fact that we historians are interested in what is partly a reflection of ourselves, perhaps a part of ourselves we would rather not examine except through the medium of scholarship; it is also true that as we steep ourselves in our interests, they become more and more a part of us.

I's lonely to stay inside oneself.

I know by now, only too well, that you can never get away from yourself because you never go away.

Okay so enough about me..now what do you think about me?

One should not try to alter natural law by using force. Recognize the situation. In ancient times when there were serious calamities an emperor often issued a "self-blame decree," a mea culpa, to calm people's indignation. Through self-examination and by being central and steadfast, wait for another cycle from Hindrance to Advance.

Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?

I did not do those things; I only watched, watched myself act, react.

Do I need him? Do I really have to have this life?

our greatest threat today is not a secular culture, or a progressive ideology, or another nation in the world. The greatest threat to our future is what's within the hearts of those of us who imagine ourselves to be Christ-followers.

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.