Quotes About Self-examination

Don't be reviling yourself. None of us is such fine judges of what to do.

The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry

No one had said anything, or even lifted an eyebrow at me; sometimes it's just the inside of your own head that is the problem.

The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster.

I lean into the mirror. Eyes after eyes after eyes stare back at me. Am I in there somewhere? A thousand eyes blink.

Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you.

I have done so many things in my life, she said to the mirror. Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

It occurred to me that soon I would need a scroll of butcher paper and a felt-tip pen to record the list of completely senseless things comprising my life. I would tape the scroll to the wall and conduct a focus group of one.

An unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is hell. We talk too much.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

A man who needs a mirror is looking for something.

In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.

our first responsibility is to remove the weeds from our own garden. We must take the high road ourselves before exhorting others to do so.

A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

At the beginning of a new year, many people have nothing better to do than to make a list of bad deeds and resolve from now on—how many such "from-now-ons" have there already been!—to begin with better intentions, but they are still stuck in the middle of their paganism.

Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. In this life you can fall from any level.

Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.