Quotes About Self-examination

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

Googling yourself is like staring at a flame and then putting your hand in it.

In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.

why do men continue to practice in themselves, the absurdities they despise in others? Thomas Paine, The rights of man: being an answer to Mr Burke's attack on the French Revolution (2nd edn, Philadelphia, 1791), p. 41.

she rose and drifted about the room at length, clasping and unclasping her hands, pressing them to her temples as if she would seal in certain broodings which lay hidden there.

The best mirror is not that which is most gilded, but that which shows the truest face.

Problems exist in the minds of individuals. You have to solve your own problems, no matter what kind of society you live in—socialist, communist or capitalist. You must check your own mind. Your problem is not society's problem, not my problem. You are responsible for your own problems just as you're responsible for your own liberation or enlightenment.

Real annihilation happens from the inside out.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

I'm not very good at being objective about myself.

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves Ã¢â'¬Â¦

I don't know a soul who couldn't see a fool jest by lookin' in the glass. I been one myself, once't or twice't. So hesh up now. Cryin' ain't go'n do no good.

how does ego play in this situation?

I am the only person I would like to know thoroughly

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Se regarder scrupuleusement soi-même, ne regarder que discrètement les autres.

How dare I claim to be a sage or a benevolent man?

The philosopher Zeng said, I daily examine myself on three points: whether, in transacting business for others, I may have been not faithful; whether, in intercourse with friends, I may have been not sincere; whether I may have not mastered and practiced the instructions of my teacher.

Am I a monster, are there monsters in me ?

The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

If you try to examine your life analytically, asking yourself who you are, finally you will realize that there is something you cannot reach. You don't know what it is, but you feel the presence of something you want to connect with. This is sometimes called the absolute. Buddha and Dogen Zenji say true self. Christians say God.

When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves.