Quotes About Self-examination

You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself.

Ne te quaesiveris extra. (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Quotation confesses inferiority.

It is said to be the age of the first person singular

La persona debería aprender a detectar y observar ese destello de luz que atraviesa su mente desde adentro, más que el realce del firmamento de los bardos y sabios. Sin embargo, la persona desecha su propio pensamiento sin tomarlo en cuenta, porque es suyo.

Ne te quaesiveris extra.

I refer to the cross of Christ. The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt - self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, comfort over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself-- ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself—

To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself—

No, no es modestia exactamente. No estoy nada seguro de ser modesto;

Sick?--What's sick? Who is 'well'? Do you imagine, if you or I were minutely examined, we would be one hundred percent 'well'?

I will be the clinician of my own pathology.

we're sick of ourselves.

But [as for me personally] it matters very little to me that I should be put on trial by you [on this point], and that you or any other human tribunal should investigate and question and cross-question me, I do not even put myself on trial and judge myself. (1 Corinthians 4:3)

I encourage you to examine your life, to pay attention to your thoughts and your words, and to see how much thanksgiving you express. Do you murmur and complain about things or are you thankful?

If you are a woman who truly wants to have peaceful relationships, I encourage you to examine yourself and ask God to reveal to you any unrealistic expectations you may have of other people.

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Estas pláticas que yo tengo con mi conciencia son a veces muy largas, duran días enteros; por eso no resulta que me ponga a contártelas en esta pobre carta. De verdad, cuídate mucho, come y duerme bien y sueña con los angelitos y no en esta cosa maligna que soy yo. Pero no me olvides.

We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.

Somewhere, sometime, somebody taught her to question everything - though it might have been a good thing if he'd also taught her to question the act of questioning.

Who, then, are they, seated here? Is the table a mirror in which they sit and look? Are they men eating reflections of themselves?