Quotes About Self-examination

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

When you point a finger at someone, always remember that three fingers are pointing back at you.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

I don't see in myself any perfection.

Withdraw into yourself and look.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Dia yang terlalu tinggi di atas singgasana tidak pernah melihat telapak kakinya. Dia tak pernah ingat, pada tubuhnya ada bagian yang bernama telapak kaki. Pendengarannya tidak untuk menangkap suara dewa, juga tidak suara segala yang di bawah telapak kaki. Ia hanya dengarkan diri sendiri. Suara murid Bapa ini takkan sampai kepadanya. Untuknya yang paling tepat hanya dijolok.

lord I have problem... it is me.

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to a mountain of self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused, hurt and hungry ...

The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always at zero. It is ice in the veins. Its camera is an X—ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.

I'm a failed narcissist.

which goes to show, he said, that we examine least what has formed us the most, and instead find ourselves driven blindly to re-enact it. Maybe it's only in our injuries, he said, that the future can take root.

we examine least what has formed us the most, and instead find ourselves driven blindly to re-enact it. Maybe it's only in our injuries, he said, that the future can take root.

Is it male attention I want, or male authority?

I prodded at my emotions with a long stick as if they were something dead in the woods. I interrogated myself. Are you sad? Are you angry? Are you disappointed? Heartbroken?

I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.

You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.'

Sometimes you have to blame yourself before you can blame others.

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

I suggest that instead of criticising us, the establishment has a bloody good look at itself.

Just be sure that you observe carefully what wells up within you and place that above everything that you notice around you.

Who has not sat, afraid, before his heart's curtain?

to go into yourself and to examine the depths from which your life springs; at its source you will find the answer to the question

You are looking outward, and that above all you should not do now. Nobody can counsel and help you, nobody. There is only one single way. Go into yourself.