Quotes about Self-reflection

The longer this lifetime goes, the more convinced I am that our primary responsibility in life is to find a way to make peace with ourselves, our past, and our present—no matter what we face and no matter how often we need to do that.

I wanted to be a victim. I continued to act like I did not have choices and that it was always everyone else's fault in the family for how I felt and reacted." More

We can evaluate our behavior. We can make decisions about what we need and want. We can figure out what our problems are and what we need to do to solve them.

True happiness results less from money than from our relationships—with ourselves, with other people, and with God.

Make no excuses. Rationalize nothing. Blame no one. Humble yourself.

When we judge a brother's or sister's sin as so much worse than our own, we are like lepers counting spots. "She has more than I do.

Each person should examine his own work … not in respect to someone else. For each person will have to carry his own load. Galatians 6:4—5

Be careful of those who allow microscopes to replace mirrors in their lives, holding you to standards you were never called to maintain.

When you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things. Romans 2:1

Lord, at whatever point I judge another person, Your Word says I am condemning myself, because those of us who pass judgment do the same things. Now I know that Your judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. So when I, a mere human, pass judgment on others and yet do the same things, do I think I will escape Your judgment? (Rom. 2:1—2). If I do not judge, I will not be judged. If I do not condemn, I will not be condemned. If I

We may be afraid to ask God to keep us humble. Why are we not far more frightened of what pride can do?

It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.