Quotes About Self-examination

The tendency to look for all causes outside ourselves persists even when it is clear that our state of being is the product of personal qualities such as ability, character, appearance, health and so on.

It is for Irishmen to criticize the absurdities of Irish nationalism, Welshmen those of Welsh nationalism, Englishmen those of their own brand – which are harder to detect than the others, at any rate for themselves. Nobody else can do it for them. This may be difficult, unpopular, and at times even hopeless, but the nation which lacks internal critics is lost, like Germany in Hitler's days.

That is awareness; that is honesty; but you do not need to put yourself in the docket and indict yourself.

Il saggio trova in sé la causa dei propri errori, il pazzo ne accusa gli altri».

Like mirror script, to read requires reflection, asks us to see ourselves holding the page.

Cel?lalt este alc?tuit din întreb?ri pe care nu îndr?zneÈ™ti s? i le pui... Iat? una dintre întreb?rile de nerostit: ce crezi despre mine? ?i totuÈ™i, ne petrecem timpul presupunând cum ne v?d ceilalÈ›i, imaginându-ne pe noi înÈ™ine tr?ind în mintea lor.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.

I think it's important to talk to your inner thing. The purpose is to go over the decisions that will affect my life and others. I pray that I don't make my decisions based on ego.

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

Personally, I think getting obsessed with yourself is the most dangerous thing.

I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to.

Some irony. The girl who couldn't face her own bullshit . . . suddenly forcing everyone else to.

it encourages its readers to engage in similar acts of self-scrutiny.

Truth is within ourselves.

People who cling to their delusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: A people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water. —James Baldwin

I feel as if I have walked into a mirrored room and glimpsed myself from an unfamiliar angle for the first time. Is that really what I look like? Is that who I am?

On the whole, he seems to have used the notebook, and the quiet hours of recording, as a way of conversing with himself – a means of clarification of his own thoughts.

And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's

Judgments are thoughts, and thoughts are living, moving energy. Because energy attracts like energy, judgment attracts judgmental people. The world is a mirror in which we glimpse ourselves. If there are judgmental people around us, it may be that life is asking us to examine our own willingness or tendency to judge.

The most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself. When

One lets you off the hook, and the other forces you to think.