Quotes About Self-examination

those who are willing to enter the woods of self-examination in order to retrieve what was never really lost.

Sometimes my capacity for smallness is surprising, even to myself.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Sinful self and all its wretched failures should be sufficiently noticed so as to keep us in the dust before God. Christ and His great salvation should be contemplated so as to lift us above self and fill the soul with thanksgiving.

As for myself, I would just say that, because of what I am, I can at least look myself in the face when I stand before the mirror each morning to shave. And that, madam, is more than many men I know can do.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Todos deberíamos, en algún momento de la existencia, cuestionar nuestra propia vida. Quien no lo hace será esclavo de su rutina, será controlado por ella y nunca verá nada más allá del velo del sistema. Vivirá para trabajar, cumplir obligaciones profesionales, tener un papel social pero terminará sucumbiendo en el vacío. Vivirá para sobrevivir hasta la llegada de la muerte.

It takes no deep insight to see that the source of both our well-being and our maladies lies within our own hearts and minds. To change our experience of life we must inevitably change our hearts and minds, or rather our heart/minds.

The sequence between shamatha and vipashyana makes perfect sense: first refine your powers of attention, then use them to explore and purify the mind, which can be directly examined only through first-person observation.

The calling of a man's self to a strict account, is a medicine, sometime too piercing and corrosive.

In the discharge of thy place, set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts. And after a time, set before thee thine own example; and examine thyself strictly, whether thou didst not best at first. Neglect not also the examples, of those that have carried themselves ill, in the same place; not to set off thyself, by taxing their memory, but to direct thyself, what to avoid.

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

Although it happens more rarely in men, breast cancer is not gender-specific. I was in Costa Rica, and in the shower I felt this lump under my left nipple. It was very small, mind you, but enough to make me call my doctor.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.

I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion.

I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.

Rumination is the coin of my realm. Interiority breeds interiority.

Das Gewissen ist ein Spiegel, vor dem ein Affe sich quält; jeder putzt sich, wie er kann, und geht auf seine eigne Art auf seinen Spaß dabei aus.

if I examine myself closely enough, I find hints of every objectionable quality known to man.

Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves--that we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.