Self Reflection Quotes

"Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision." "And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge." "What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now." "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." "He who sits alone, sleeps alone, and walks alone, who is strenuous and subdues himself alone, will find delight in the solitude of the forest." "Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up." "There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills." "The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." "It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one’s own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one’s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice." "Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet." "I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain." "Give up what appears to be doubtful for what is certain. Truth brings peace of mind, and deception doubt." "Ponder and deliberate before you make a move." "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." "In the depths of my heart, I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless." "In mourning, it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia, it is the ego itself." "We are what we are because we have been what we have been." "No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed." "Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge."