Quotes about Self-reflection

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known...

What does a mirror look at?

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

Paul heard his mother's grief and felt the emptiness within himself. I have no grief , he thought. Why? Why? He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

Mentat, solve thyself, he thought.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I've become. The one I can't make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips.

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

your behaviour must be such that when you go to bed at night you will be happy with what you have done during the day

there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes.