Self Reflection Quotes

"Focus on me" "Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul." "I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends." "When you judge another you do not define them you define yourself" "I might bе happier if I was someone else" "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was" "Congratulations, you played yourself" "Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power" "If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little" "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection" "Writing saves me from the sin and inconvenience of violence." "Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us" "When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself" "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend" "What we see is not what we see but what we are." "If you are able to look yourself in the mirror every day with the decisions that you make, that's where power starts." "It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself" "I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen" "Almost all our miseries flow from the want of consideration of the past, and of serenity in the present"