Quotes about Self-reflection

Francis de Sales, a sixteenth-century bishop, said, "We often say that we are nothing, that we are misery itself and the refuse of the world, but we would be very sorry if anyone took us at our word or told others that we are really such as we say.

It may very well be that there's a villain and a hero inside each of us, and each day we have a choice of who we want to be.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

She caught herself thinking: She's functioning well in an emergency, I'll be all right with her—and realized that she was thinking of herself.

Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." "But I don't think of you." Toohey

Look at yourself before you pass judgment. Don't make someone else clean up your mess.

I never learn anything from listening to myself.

Do not expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go badly, you will blame yourself.

With these startling honesties glinting up at us from history's broken mirror, it strikes me that this is worth shouting from the rooftops: We could be wrong this time, again. The enemy may not be exactly what we think. It may be a force that resides in many quarters, including inside our skin, in our very words, the questions we frame, the things we love most, the things we can't live without. Our greatest dread may be our salvation.

if you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins.

Forgive me, Dellarobia. It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

Inside-Out means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives