Quotes about Self-reflection

I ask women to check the feelings they have about themselves before they do something. If you're doing it out of a sense of desperation and need, don't do it.

You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

I thought of myself as a very goal-oriented person. The more I've aged, the more I'm like, well, maybe I'm not that ambitious.

I couldn't just sit there and meditate all morning - that's not really my thing. It's not good for me to give my brain too much space to think.

Meditation changes your character.

I don't think roles help you resolve your issues. I just think they're good markers.

I read the horoscope, and when I like it I smile and when I don't like it, I say, 'Dr. Ruth Westheimer, what's the matter with you?'

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

Most leaders shipwreck or live inconsistent lives because of forces and motivations beneath the surface of their lives, which they have never even considered.

Lewis Smedes sums up the dangers of superficial forgiveness: "We will not take healing action against unfair pain until we own the pain we want to heal. It is not enough to feel pain. We need to appropriate the pain we feel: Be conscious of it, take it on, and take it as our own … I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain.

Most of us never examine the scripts handed to us by our past.

Our wisdom . . . consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.