Quotes About Self-examination

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

If your searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.

To be the best you can be, is to know the person in the mirror better than you think you know everyone else.

If you decided to follow other peoples advice, take time to examine yourself how much you believe in yourself before giving up your life to experience others advice.

Self assessment is the first step to all assessment.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

vaya destapémonos a nosotros mismos dejemos que se evapore el tufo de egoísmo que nos condenan a una mediocridad inmóvil

Hay días en que la recuerdo y me pregunto: ¿Qué estará haciendo? Hay noches en que la extraño y me pregunto: ¿Qué me estoy haciendo?

Forgive me for rating my own book and wanting to read my own book, etc. (as seen on the Author Profile page) I'm new to this Author Profile jazz and don't quite understand how it all works yet. But I'll get there. Thank you.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

You want to get a good look at yourself. You stand before a mirror, you take off your jacket, unbutton your shirt, open your belt, unzip your fly. The outer clothing falls from you. You take off your shoes and socks, baring your feet. You remove your underwear. At a loss, you examine the mirror. There you are. You are not there.

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility.

When there's something in the Word of God that I don't like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it's with me.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Getting closer to home, is it a fully satisfying repentance if we only deal with the past, which cannot be changed? "Alas, what did I do?" I don't think so. Believers get closer to repentance instead by asking, "Alas, what kind of person was I that I could do that?

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Therefore the ungodly will not rise in the judgment," because the Jews do not confess their wrong and do not accuse themselves. But as the righteous man is the first to accuse himself, so the ungodly man is the first to defend himself. Thus the Jews do not accuse their own ungodliness but defend it.

If I examine myself I find enough unholiness to shock me. But when I look at Christ in me I find that I am altogether holy.

The inner and hidden part of this wisdom is nothing else than knowing oneself thoroughly, and therefore hating oneself.

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

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.