Quotes about Self-reflection
I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
— Paulo Coelho
She was overwhelmed with shame that she had so quickly acted like her old name and nature, which she had hoped was beginning to be changed already.
— Hannah Hurnard
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.
— St. John Chrysostom
Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.
— St. Anthony of Padua
It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
— Thomas a Kempis
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three-piece suit." He counsels the arrogant that facing Christ is like entering the Church of the Nativity: "The door is so low, you can't go in
— Max Lucado
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."1 Our deeds are ugly. Our actions are harsh. We don't do what we want to do, we don't like what we do, and what's worse—yes, there is something worse—we can't change.
— Max Lucado
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
— Maya Angelou
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
— Maya Angelou
Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
— Maya Angelou
tell the truth to yourself first, and to the children.
— Maya Angelou