Quotes About Self-examination

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best- in a way that cost them nothing.

Until we face the war within ourselves, the world will never change.

Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind.

Unless and until you introspect you cannot even respect yourself. You cannot even love yourself. If you love yourself you will introspect and find out what's wrong.

Wisdom can only come through honest introspection.

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain!

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

Zbudzi?em si? o tej mrocznej godzinie, która zaczyna beznadziejny jesienny dzie?. (...) To jest godzina podliczania kasy ?yciowej, godzina codziennego obrachunku. Kiedy? ludzie podsumowywali si? o pó?nocy, przed ci??kim za?ni?ciem, teraz bij? si? w piersi nad ranem, obudzeni ?oskotem zdychaj?cego serca.

Przysz?a mi ochota napisa? troch? g?upstw o sobie. -Zawsze pisa?e? o sobie. -Mo?e masz racj?, ale chcia?em o innych. -Najwy?sza pora. -?eby si? zag?uszy?.

years of observing from the outside (one gets into the habit of being oneself)—

We see how our reactions to our emotions can keep us at a distance from ourselves.

Stepping back from our thoughts through mindfulness gives us the freedom to question the thoughts and so be less controlled by them.

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.