Quotes about Self-reflection

After all, what is an individual?

That which had made Helmholtz so uncomfortably aware of being himself and all alone was too much ability.

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.

Our real journey in life is interior.

I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses.

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.