Quotes About Introspection

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

"I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

There must be more to life than having everything.

I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

Don't let the sun go down on me.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

All forgiveness is self forgiveness.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.