Quotes About Self-examination

He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me.

I would borrow the microphone and stuff it down the front of my pants, examining myself from every angle in the mirror

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

We are the cause of our own sufferings.

The apparently unthreatening act of settling the mind on the breath and observing what is occurring in the body and mind exposes a contradiction between the sort of person we wish to be and the kind of person we are.

It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes, I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror.

she was still uncomfortable about her own motives and afraid to examine them too deeply

Unexamined thoughts, habits or action may offer some deceptive gain or pleasure but eventually it takes away something most valuable from our life, which we have ever wished for.

All answers to life's key questions are found within.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

como sabe? você não fez nada, não foi a lugar algum. como sabe que tipo de pessoa você é?

anything to stop me having to sit and contemplate my own life.

We ought to be much concerned to know whether we do not live in the gratification of some lust, either in practice or in our thoughts: whether we do not live in the omission of some duty, some thing which God expects we should do; whether we do not go into some practice or manner of behaviour, which is not warrantable.

The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.

Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? … You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye. (MATTHEW 7:3–5)

opens it." "So what're you

When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.

I feel a dark wave of regret for the kind of person I turned out to be.

Yes books are valuable. But no reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Er betrieb die gemischten Gefühle seit langem aus Liebhaberei. Wer sie untersuchen wollte, mußte sie haben. Nur während man sie besaß, konnte man sie beobachten. Man war ein Chirurg, der die eigene Seele aufschnitt.