Quotes About Self-examination

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

I think I am my own biggest critic, yeah.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

An unconsidered life is not one worth living.

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

Sócrates dijo a sus amigos: «Algunos de vosotros me habéis dicho: Sócrates, si no se ocupara más que de sus asuntos, seguramente podría escapar a la ira del gobierno. Pero yo no puedo. Una vida aceptada sin reflexión, no merece la pena vivirla. Lo menos que se puede esperar de nosotros es que nos comportemos como hombres.»

you can tap into your inner Buddha if you take the time to observe your life, your actions, your reactions, your choices, and the consequences.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

Nevertheless, faithfully interrogate your own souls, whether ye have not been unduly puffed up by your integrity, and continence, and chastity; and whether ye have not been so desirous of the human praise that is accorded to these virtues, that ye have envied some who possessed them.

Od onog ondašnjeg ?ovjeka ja sam se, i to upravo zbog onog doživljaja, potpuno odvojio, promatram ga sa strane, sasvim mirno i hladno, i mogu ga opisati kao prijatelja o kojem znam mnogo i sve ono što je bitno, ali ja uop?e više nisam taj ?ovjek. Mogao bih pri?ati o njemu, prekoravati ga ili ga osu?ivati a da uop?e ne osjetim da je on jednom bio sastavni dio mene.

It is true: Montaigne achieved little else in his life aside from posing the question: "How should I live?

He becomes an auto-psychologist. "What do I know?" he asks himself.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

so many people would be afraid to look in the mirror if the saw their character and not their face…it would be like american horror story.

If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.

..... you can never lie to the guy in the mirror !!!

Sometimes life hands us a mirror and dares us to take a look.

You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.

Everybody has a jury, the voices they carry inside. Earl Briggs sits on my jury, Gloria Dayton, too. They are there with Katie and Sandy, my mother, my father, and soon Legal Siegel as well. Those I have loved and those I have hurt. Those who bless me and those who haunt me. My gods of guilt. Every day I carry on and I carry them close. Every day I step into the well before them and I argue my case.