#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.”

“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”

“History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.”

“Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?”

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”

“You can only see in others what is inside of you.”

“Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.”

“Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.”

“What a fool I have been!”

“We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.”

“When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.”

“What you feel is wrong or missing in your relationships is an indication that something is amiss within you.”

“If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs. Life is both subtler and more complex than some of us like to believe. So if you haven't done so already, review your beliefs and decide which ones you might change now and what you would change those beliefs to.”

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

“You must make a daily effort to look upon others without condemnation. Every judgment takes you away from your goal of peace. Your ego loves your judgments, because with them you remain in a constant state of anguish and remorse. Keep in mind that you do not define anyone with your judgment; you only define yourself as someone who needs to be judged.”

“Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”

“Whenever you have a thought that excludes or judges anyone else, you aren't defining them. You're defining yourself as someone who needs to judge others.”

“it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.”

“When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.”

“I don't know what humor is.”

“The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me."”

“I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.”

“When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.”

“It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.”

“The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.”

“Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.”