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Quotes about Self-examination

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (James 1:22) In
- Lisa Bevere
He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.
- Aldous Huxley
I, real I? But where, but how, but at what price?
- Aldous Huxley
It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.
- Dorothy Day
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.
- DL Moody
This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Being in closer-than-usual contact with the actual workings of your mind can lead you to confront issues with a new and perhaps unsettling honesty.
- Robert Wright
To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
And to contend with the whole world is a comfort, but to contend with oneself dreadful.
- Soren Kierkegaard
man who lives under his own supervision, alone in the whole world
- Soren Kierkegaard
If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you read God's Word, in everything you read, continually to say to yourself: It is I to whom it is speaking, it is I about whom it is speaking—this is earnestness, precisely this is earnestness
- Soren Kierkegaard