Quotes About Self-examination

Dear soul, am I only because I have been?

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.

I'm hardest on myself. I'm my biggest critic. I ended up hurting myself a lot by doing that.

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?

They knew that Pascal's room, Thoreau's hut, and especially their own den was a dark chamber, an unhealthy space full of resentment; they knew that one is nothing when alone, that one thinks most often of nothing at all, and that hell is not other people, but the self.

I see now that my feminism as a young woman was paper thin. I was possessed of the fervor of a born-again and had learned the rhetoric, but not yet examined myself enough to live by and through my values.

Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two.

Bitmezdi bu. Aynalarda ço?al?r gibi ço?al?yorum; yorgunlu?a, öfkeye, üst üste y???lan tersliklere vermeli bunu.

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

I don't want to write a hagiography on myself. To me, that is just a waste.

Atlar?n? çift sürmeye gönderecek yerde üzerlerine bindiÄŸinden , Elma ÅŸarab?n satacak yerde kendini içtiÄŸinden, Kümesinin en besili hayvanlar?n? yediÄŸinden, Av çizmelerini domuzlar?n?n içya??yla yaÄŸlad???ndan bütün ticareti olduÄŸu yerde b?rak?vermenin daha iyi olaca??n? anlamakta gecikmedi.

I don't like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.

What are we "doing" when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow men, are together with no one but ourselves?

Quaestio Mihi Factus Sum" ("I am become a question to myself")

In the worst memoirs, you can feel the author justifying himself - forgiving himself - in every paragraph. In the best memoirs, the author is tougher on him- or herself than his or her readers will ever be.

The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?