Quotes About Self-examination

We all have some proper noun to blame.

Purgatory is where you unwrite the book of your life story

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

Plainly and simply put, Purgatory is where you unwrite the book of your life story.

Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me.

YaÅŸam?m?zda ray?ndan ç?kabilecek ÅŸeylerin hepsini fark ettikten sonra hayat yaÅŸan?r olmaktan ç?kar, daha çok beklemekle geçer, Kanseri beklemekle. Bunamay? beklemekle. Her aynaya bakt???n?zda zona olabilecek k?rm?z? lekeler aramaya baÅŸlars?n?z.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

As difficult as it may seem, you've got to be honest with yourself about this whole process. Change can often be difficult, and it will probably seem easier to just stick with what you are already doing. That thinking can be dangerous. You're only kicking the can down the road, and you risk waking up one day, years later, looking into the mirror, asking yourself: What am I doing with my life?

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

I like reading my own writing. It seems to fit me closer than it did before.

Now then is my chance to find out what is of great importance, and I must be careful, and tell no lies.

I catch your eye. I, who had been thinking myself so vast, a temple, a church, a whole universe, confined and capable of being everywhere on the verge of things and here too, am now nothing but what you see.

There was a spectator in me who, even while I squirmed and obeyed, remained observant, note taking for some future revision.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words

And yet I have been fashioned so painstakingly," thought Cincinnatus as he wept in the darkness. "The curvature of my spine has been calculated so well, so mysteriously. I feel, tightly rolled up in my calves, so many miles that I could yet run in my lifetime. My head is so comfortable Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â The clock struck a half, pertaining to some unknown hour.

my own company being intolerable, since it excited me too much and to no purpose

Everybody knows what they want. They just won't examine their behavior closely enough and see what it means.

Leave God out of your mess and go look in the mirror instead.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

People blame God for this or that, when instead they should be facing what is inside them.

Meditation practice is not an exotic or out-of-reach approach. It is immediate and personal, and it involves an intimate relationship with ourselves. It is getting to know ourselves by examining our actual psychological process without being ashamed of it.