Quotes About Self-examination

Should what you get up to fail to comport with who you think you are, something is surely inaccurate (and likely optimistic) about who you think you are.

It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it. I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not Mine.

Mi-a pl?cut întotdeauna mai degrab? s? m? acuz pe mine decât universul: nu din bun?tate: ca s? nu depind decât de mine.

And as the night dragged on, so did the terrible, dreary introspection. Had I been misleading myself my entire life?

was asking himself long before he'd

Élem a magam életét, nyalogatom a saját sebeimet. Lehet, hogy nem ez a legjobb megoldás, de én ilyen vagyok.

Of what are you thinking now? she asked. I am thinking of myself. That's just what I am doing. Are you also thinking of yourself? No, of yourself—of you, Mogens.

I checked my underwear for a spot of blood like I always did. Nothing but the shadow of a good old-fashioned skid mark toward the rear.

But most blacks are prevented from this self-examination and self-criticism, because they don't think for themselves as individuals first; they instead willingly accept the opinions they know they are supposed to have as racial victims. They embrace the attitudes cued to them by black politicians and racial professionals.

I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

Always take an inventory of your life

You need to do an inventory of yourself to discover your calling and purpose

Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself

You must live a life of self-consciousness always

Always evaluate and determine the product of your life

I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

One need not fear the devil, but rather the perverse tendencies in oneself!

Never forget that when you point the finger at someone, three of your own fingers are pointing back at you...

Shut one eye then the other Peek into every corner of yourself See that there are no nails no thieves See that there are no cuckoo's eggs Shut then the other eye Squat and jump Jump high high high On top of yourself Fall then with all your weight Fall for days on end deep deep deep To the bottom of your abyss Who doesn't break into pieces Who remains whole gets up whole Plays