Quotes about Self-reflection

I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!

Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

You were created for truth. So no matter how frightening it may be at the time, we must always be truthful with ourselves.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.