Self Reflection Quotes

"Cruelty is cheap, easy, and rampant. It’s also chicken shit. Especially when you attack and criticize anonymously. Most of the cruelty in the world comes from people who are miserable with themselves." "In order to be an object of desire, it is necessary to get some distance from oneself" "People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice." "Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone." "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." "This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections" "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing " "If today were your last, would you do what you’re doing?" "A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous." "Justice must always question itself just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions" "The biggest mistake most people make is to not see themselves and others objectively." "It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own" "We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it " "Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true " "Life’s not a popularity contest, be brave, take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?" "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other" "The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths." "There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there." "I’m an addict, I’m addicted to success" "When I'm not feeling my best I ask myself: What are you gonna do about it?"