Quotes about Self-reflection

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

Inside John, she thinks, is another John, who is much nicer. This other John will emerge like a butterfly from a cocoon, a Jack from a box, a pit from a prune, if the first John is only squeezed enough.

When push comes to shove, only one's own nightmares are of any interest or significance.

She stood for a long time, breathing in and breathing in, the scent of the trees and dogs and night flowers and water, because this was the best thing, it was what she wanted, to be outside in the night by herself. She wasn't sick any longer.

I avoid looking down at my body, not so much because it's shameful or immodest but because I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.   I

How long do you expect me to wait while you cauterize your senses, one after another turning yourself to an impervious glass tower?

I have to be more careful about my memories, I have to be sure they're my own and not the memories of other people telling me what I felt, how I acted, what I said: if the events are wrong the feelings I remember about them will be wrong too, I'll start inventing them and there will be no way of correcting it, the ones who could help are gone.

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.