Self Reflection Quotes

“I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.”

“Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.”

“Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.”

“A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower”

“It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.”

“Examine well your blood.”

“Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?”

“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”

“If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.”

“It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.”

“For my part, I may speak it to my shame,I have a truant been to chivalry;And so I hear he doth account me too.”

“Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.”

“The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.”

“Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.”

“We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.”

“It's no good giving my heart and mySoul because you already have these.So I've brought you a mirror.Look at yourself and remember me.”

“Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.”

“I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.”

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

“You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.”

“I see my beauty in you.”

“Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.”

“Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

“Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not.”