Quotes About Self-examination

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou find'st there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

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...

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy.

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...

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state, he usually discovers that he is ill.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

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

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

back off from this poem it is a greedy mirror you are into this poem from the waist down nobody can hear you can they ? this poem has had you up to here.

Why am I doing this? Will this harm my body, my mind or someone else right now? Will this harm my body, my mind or someone else in the future?

También quiere que ella le diga qué hacer consigo mismo: si ha de seguir saliendo todas las mañanas a hacer el reparto y tumbarse por las tardes en la cama a descansar y escuchar la radio y (cada vez más a menudo) beber, y luego quedarse dormido y dormir el sueño de los muertos durante ocho, nueve o hasta diez horas; o bien si ha de salir al mundo y hacer algo del todo distinto.

difficult to make a real confession and show what happened when you're such an egomaniac all you can do is take off on big paragraphs about minor details about yourself and the big sole details about others go sitting and waiting around)

But remember, my reader, whom I hope to have travel far with me through time and space remember, please, my reader, that I have thought much on these matters that through bloody nights and sweats of dark that lasted years long I have been alone with my many selves to consult and contemplate my many selves.

I think, in life, we want to surround ourselves with people who make us think and question ourselves, and those are the types of films I want to do and the types of characters that I hope I get to continue to play.

Self-examination - when the whole world around you is pressuring that and challenging you - is very, very hard. Looking at a whole structure - in my case, let us say of snobbery, basking in certain privileges, marks of what appear to be superiority - that's ugly to look at.

Rosewood is what Americans did to Americans. We have to hold the mirror up... and look at ourselves. Sometimes that's an ugly sight. And sometimes you have to go through that pain - both black America and white America - so we can finally find some racial harmony.