Quotes about Self-reflection
Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're livin'.
— Bob Marley
Judge not unless you judge yourself.
— Bob Marley
What I am looking for is not out there. It is in me.
— Helen Keller
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
— Abraham Lincoln
i can nourish myself on nothing but truth
— St. Therese of Lisieux
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
— St. Augustine
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
— St. Augustine
Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.
— Pope Gregory The Great
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.
— Ignatius of Loyola
When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself.
— St. Jerome
I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. 11.
— Teresa of Avila
Let's make the best possible use of our feet first and learn to know ourselves. And yet it seems to me that we will never know ourselves unless we seek to know God. Glimpsing his greatness, we recognize our own powerlessness; gazing upon his purity, we notice where we are impure; pondering his humility, we see how far from humble we are.
— Teresa of Avila