Quotes About Self-examination

Am I the kind of person I want my eternal companion to be?

Learn to question yourself: Why this anger or resentment? Where does this incessant need for attention come from? Under such scrutiny, your emotions will lose their hold on you. You will begin to think for yourself instead of reacting to what others give you.

This means that you yourself are largely the agent of anything bad that happens to you. With more prudence, wiser policies, and greater vision, you could have avoided the danger. So when something goes wrong, look deep into yourself—not in an emotional way, to blame yourself or indulge your feelings of guilt, but to make sure that you start your next campaign with a firmer step and greater vision.

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.

The rag he'd used to clean the table went into the fire behind him. I saw what you are, he said, and I was ashamed. I saw what you expect from a person, and I'd call you a bitch except you demand it from yourself as well. I saw how you see me, he explained. It wasn't anything I didn't already know, but it made me wonder at what I lack, what isn't there.

Somewhere along the line I began compiling myself from the excerpts of better men.

How conceited I was, and how mistaken!

You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

If I am not I, who will be?

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

our thoughts have to be accountable to our self

Estou diante dum espelho. Pela primeira vez na vida (isso, exactamente, pela primeira vez na vida) estou a ver-me clara, distinta e conscientemente; olho para mim, admirado, como se estivesse a ver alguém diferente de mim.

Though evasion rarely leads to joy; there is, one must admit, a sense of joy if one can dissect something, oneself included, with precision.

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

Parc? era vorba s? nu-?i mai pui întreb?ri, b?iatule cu p?rul ciufulit? — N-a? fi om, dac? nu mi-a? pune întreb?ri...

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

When I speak of good hearing, I do not mean listening to others; I mean simply listening to yourself. When I speak of good eyesight, I do not mean looking at others; I mean simply looking at yourself. He who does not look at himself but looks at others, who does not get hold of himself but gets hold of others, is getting what other men have got and failing to get what he himself has got. He finds joy in what brings joy to other men, but finds no joy in what would bring joy to himself.

We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

See yourself in the mirror of your mind to find yourself.

There is no one I find as tiresome as myself. Talk about ubiquitous. It's so difficult to find someplace quiet apart from myself, hard to keep me out of the room for even a moment. I just keep following myself around wherever I go, monotonously chirping.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.