Quotes About Self-examination

One may be humble out of pride.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

I'm not one to probe my limitations.

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.

I do have sometimes a difficult time watching myself.

It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

You have to look yourself in the eye and ask, 'Who are you?' It can't be all about work.

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit.

If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit." "That's

He was well aware that he hadn't told Polworth the whole truth about his relationship with Robin Ellacott, which, after all, was nobody else's business. The truth was that his feelings contained nuances and complications that he preferred not to examine. For instance, he had a tendency, when alone, bored, or low-spirited, to want to hear her voice.

We know how the people of Argentina ruined their country. We know how the people of Venezuela ruined their country. Few Americans know much about the history of Argentina or Venezuela. But if they wish to know how the people of the USA are ruining their own country, all they have to do is look around themselves, including, in most cases, looking in the mirror.

Abandon the search for God and the creation and other matters of a similar sort. Look for him by taking yourself as the starting point. Learn who it is within you who makes everything his own and says, "My God, my mind, my thought, my soul, my body." Learn the sources of sorrow, joy, love, hate… . If you carefully investigate these matters you will find him in yourself.

For while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also the case that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has its roots in what they are.

The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts. That is where the battle should be fought. Mahatma Gandhi

Ritual of Personal Reflection.

Take the time to think. Get into the regular habit of personal introspection.

Mahatma Gandhi: "The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts. That is where the battle should be fought.

blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.

Carl Jung escribió que «la visión sólo llega a ser clara cuando uno puede mirarse el corazón. El que mira hacia afuera, sueña; el que mira hacia dentro, despierta».

Do you think you are being true to yourself?

In a sense you are always more clearly aware than I can be of what I am in the world; and when I confront my own face, there may be a moment of fear, as I try to fit the person whom I know so well to this thing that others know better