Quotes About Self-examination

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Put down the flashlight, pick up the mirror.

More and more lately it seems as though the majority of my conversations are with myself.

More and more lately it seems as though the majority of my conversations are with myself. Given half the stuff I think, that's probably a good thing

Why had she asked a mirror—or anyone for that matter—to tell her who she was?

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.

You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue.

In a world without a redeemer only clarity was the answer to guilt. He would make it all clear to himself, shirking nothing, and then he would decide.

The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction.

I felt at times, it is hard to describe this, almost mad with guilt, with a sort of general guilt about my whole life.

He thought, this is hell, not being able to live with oneself.

Of course you don't know yourself, lucky old you. I just know myself too bloody well.

You're surrounded by people in the waking period, and you feel their eyes and their hopes on you. You can't stand up under it. In the sleep period, you're free.

All right, Schwartz, tackle my mind now. Go as deep as you want. I was born on Baronn in the Sirius Sector. I lived my life in an atmosphere of anti-Terrestrialism in the formative years, so I can't help what flaws and follies lie at the roots of my subconscious. But look on the surface and tell me if, in my adult years, I have not fought bigotry in myself. Not in others; that would be easy. But in myself, and as hard as I could.

We face eternity now. We have no universe left, no outside phenomena, no emotions, no passions. Nothing but ourselves and thought. We face an eternity of introspection, when all through history we have never known what to do with ourselves on a rainy Sunday.

Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia. No eres tan importante.

Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia.

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.

You like it. I probably wouldn't. I'm really only interested in my own behavior.

I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.