Self Reflection Quotes

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom-such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it-those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

The greatest events - they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I will hazard a prediction. When you are eighty years old and, in a quiet moment of reflection, narrating for only yourself the mostpersonal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made.In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story. Thank you, and good luck!

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

One of the things that made me long to be back in prison was that I had so little opportunity for reading, thinking and quiet reflection after my release. I intend, amongst other things, to give myself much more opportunity for such reading and reflection.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

Maybe it's the things I say. Maybe I should think before I speak.

So many cringes in the heroin binges, I was coming off the hinges, living on the fringes of my imagination.

The hardest thing for - not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

It's easy to forget who you are.