Quotes About Self-examination

The evidence of my life lay before me, and I was unconvinced.

Looking for truth makes a man hafta look at himself along the way.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

To be whole simply requires paying attention to oneself

We had better rate our important parts-our thoughts, feelings, and actions-to see how they helped or hindered us. But-damn it!-we didn't have to rate our self, our being, our essence. Our self or personhood was too complex to be given a global rating. We could say, for practical reasons, it was good-meaning it helped us to live and enjoy. Or we could say that it just didn't have to be rated at all. Use our self but not rate it!

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

The problem with being me, thought Isabel, as she walked along George IV Bridge, is that I keep thinking about the problem of being me.

Why, in truth, sir, was Monte Cristo's reply, man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?

But it can give me a turn, that face, any time I happen to catch it in a mirror; most particularly at times like this when I'm alone and have to admit it's really mine because there's no one else to accuse.

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

Conversely, the (social and individual) positive effect sizes for homework and scholastic achievement, calcium intake and bone mass, and self-examination and extent of breast cancer are actually smaller than the effect size for the adverse association of aggressive and antisocial behavior with exposure to violent television and film portrayals. Thus, the media effect sizes stand up quite well when compared with those for other effects whether the focus is on undesired or desirable outcomes.

He followed an ironclad rule. He NEVER WATCHED HIMSELF.

At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.

I wake up every single night wondering what I could have done differently. This is a pain that will stay with me the rest of my life.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.