Quotes About Self-examination

I'm starting with the man in the mirror

You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.

There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.

In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Life is shaped from the inside out.

It's healthy to periodically self examine your life, your goals, your relationships, and ask yourself honestly, am I happy? Am I on the right track?

Shakespeare might advise, "The fault is not in our markets, but in ourselves…

Before searching, seeking, judging, and testing others' loyalty, be loyal, and examine yourself first; consequently, the need for such espionage practice becomes unnecessary.

Before searching, seeking, judging, and testing the others' loyalty, be loyal, and examine yourself first; consequently, the need for such espionage-practice becomes unnecessary.

Never examine too much anyone without reasons that you would become yourself a question mark.

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates Each life appears and lives, carrying the process of the exam naturally; it never stays unexamined since life is itself an exam, and has worth, as in its scope and dimension. - Ehsan Sehgal

To put on the test others is very simple and easy while putting oneself into it, is the most difficult job, one who does that, it recognizes itself, it means one gains its way.

Fiz muitas coisas em minha vida, mas jamais convicta, sempre me senti um tanto descolada de minhas próprias ações.

What have I done, she thought, dazed by wine, and what is this gold circle, this glittering zero I've stuck my finger in.

Gape long enough into a looking glass and you'll eventually see beauty. The same can be said of self-analysis, and as soon as one apes oneself, a second monkey is born.

Will your world die with you, the old life you remade in your way? Have the anvils and crucibles of your soul been working for dust and wind?

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

A person who has no mind doesn't mind how the world is shaping up all around and remains confined all the time within oneself only.

The primary responsibility is to ask to oneself before wearing a mask of anyone in any function if that would help anyhow to inculcate his/her any quality or it is just a futile task.

The prudent people are to able measure a person's level of selfishness by the amount of time s/he spends enjoying looking to oneself in the mirror.

The only person you are qualified to pronounce unreasonable is yourself.

Normally, to decide whether we are alive we do not look outside of ourselves to find out if we are nourishing and generating life. We look into ourselves to find out how strong and healthy and vital we are. But the notion of the seed that dies demands an extraordinary redirection of the sense of life. Now to know if anyone is alive, we do not look at them; look beyond them to the mode of their expenditures and the life that they nourish and preserve beyond themselves.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.