Quotes About Self-examination

many of the problems we encounter in life come from the mind within, rather than the external world. To solve such problems, we need to stop blaming outside forces that we have no control over, and instead take a long hard look at ourselves. When we realize that we are the cause of our own misfortunes, we can begin to adjust our thinking at a fundamental level, and start to create real changes.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

I can do a documentary on myself, and it would be, like, 10 minutes.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

Sometimes when people ask you to do things you think you are above, you need to evaluate why you think you are above it.

I evaluate myself pretty tough.

Through intense self-examination and ceaseless selfchallenge, create change, and adjust your track toward growth and completion.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

La salute non analizza se stessa e neppur si guarda nello specchio. Solo noi malati sappiamo qualche cosa di noi stessi.

my eye lest I be invaded by

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.

Despite his success as a missionary and leader, Paul was never without a wholesome, watchful fear that he himself might be disqualified (1 Corinthians 9:27). To him this prospect was an ever-present warning against smugness and complacency. So should it be to all who are entrusted with spiritual responsibility. The

Why should your conscience be any more reliable than your rotting teeth or your quite special defect of eyesight?

I am trying to penetrate the mystery of why I am as I am- what I am- I have done everything well and right- and it can't be wrong because it was right.

religion that cannot survive looking at itself through the eyes of others does not deserve to survive.

The hangovers are the price I pay. Each skull-splitting excursion down my personal rabbit hole to hell is a guilt tinged reminder of every little fuckin' thing I've ever done wrong and never made amends for.

the ability to look within and understand ourselves, then use what we learn to be more in control of our emotions and circumstances.

Since the time I resigned, I sometimes wonder whether creating 8chan was a good thing. I sometimes wonder about the things that I said in the past while I was being its admin. Sometimes I think I should have been harder on violent threats. I think maybe I should have worked much harder to improve the moderation systems.

That's right - sometimes hell is us. Sometimes we are the cause of our own difficulties. And if we can step out of our own way, something astonishing happens.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

VERY FEW PEOPLE really understand the difficulties of accepting Christianity. The picture painted by the well-meaning is that after a conversion God gives the new believer a steady diet of happiness and all is immediately well. Nothing of the sort is true. On the contrary, like every other sincere person who is striving to believe in spite of having so long lived another way with a mind conditioned to cynicism, I had to go through a period of despondency, doubt, and painful self-examination.