Top 100 Quotes About Self Reflection
#1. I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
Werner Herzog
#2. Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara De Angelis
#3. I remind myself that too much self-reflection can make even a toadstool fall into a deep slumber.
Susan Ornbratt
#4. People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.
Bryant McGill
#5. The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.
Alex Grey
#6. It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.
Terence McKenna
#7. Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for
we can see ourselves empathically mirrored in it: his interiority is our own.
Donald Kuspit
#9. Self-reflection is an important stage to diagnose, develop and strengthen your creativity.
Pearl Zhu
#10. You're not really moving on when you jump from someone who broke your heart to a new replacement. Moving on is self reflection and being strong enough to stand on your own.
Auliq Ice
#11. Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.
Tyga
#12. Incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.
Azar Nafisi
#13. City lights shine bright on my complexion,
Self-reflection ... red hairs flashing at the intersection.
Life is a green light, one star, no script,
Supporting actors ... fresh peaches, no pit.
Action Bronson
#14. Her self-reflection was no reflection at all. It was a shattered mirror. Something she had to piece together, over and over again. Memory by memory. Loss by loss. Wolf by wolf.
Ryan Graudin
#15. Self-reflection, the ability to make of his own deepest feelings an object which he could set before him and pay it tribute, and, in the next breath, perhaps, ridicule it, was a thing he had developed to the highest degree.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#16. Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.
Frederick Lenz
#17. History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
Terence McKenna
#18. A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all ... but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.
Frederick Lenz
#19. The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.
Iyanla Vanzant
#20. Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection".
Dan Bejar
#22. I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.
Courtney Love
#23. Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.
Frederick Lenz
#24. During self-reflection, the realization came that revolution begins within.
Amanda Mosher
#25. On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.
Theodor W. Adorno
#26. The act of gaining true insights from self - reflection is a futile action for most ... as there are easy way out things like self justification, rationalization, delusions and denial which keeps us away from our true self, the inner core and thus we live contented
Anubhav Mishra
#28. Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self's relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#29. When you hit 30, it's that time of self-reflection. Some people are a success. Some people feel like they haven't achieved what they wanted to. Some people are married, some have kids, some are still single.
Hayden Schlossberg
#30. But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
Jim Wallis
#31. Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self-reflection and discovery.
Emily Auerbach
#32. You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.
Amy Dickinson
#33. No matter what we think of ourselves, our baby looks at us like we're the most glorious being that walked the earth. Who else looks at you like that? Who's feeding who here?' SELF-REFLECTION
Jacinta Tynan
#34. Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#35. I think sex is really about the self, and really a self-reflection.
Margaret Cho
#36. In that hurry to achieve, I've left little time for self-reflection. And I'm not sure I'm ready for it.
Cindy McCormick Martinusen
#37. Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members of the community to participate in the decisions and institutions that shape their lives must be continually debated, safeguarded, and preserved at all costs.
Henry Giroux
#38. Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.
Robert L. Rosen
#39. A different path of self-reflection is required if we are interested in the borders rather than the beliefs of Christianity. In my experience - in my conversations with "unbelieving neighbours" - I have learned that Christianity appears quite differently from the borders. Take,
Anthony Ledonne
#40. We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of self, which is a self-reflection.
Frederick Lenz
#41. Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.
Kirk J. Schneider
#42. Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#43. A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.
Philip Roth
#44. The symbol-producing function of our dreams is an attempt to bring our original mind back to consciousness, where it has never been before, and where it has never undergone critical self-reflection. We have been that mind, but we have never known it.
C. G. Jung
#45. I actually finally let the Light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the Light in and doing some self-reflection and just kind of working on myself.
Katy Perry
#46. To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.
Ryuho Okawa
#47. The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process , that is by the completion of self-reflection , and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves
Jurgen Habermas
#48. Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.
Frederick Lenz
#49. Real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.
Cameron Conaway
#50. This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world.
Barack Obama
#51. Practice honest self-reflection to learn and better who you are
Jerry Gladstone
#52. Everyone makes mistakes. Whether we put our mistakes to use depends on how deeply we reflect on our actions. It is desirable to reflect until the tears come.
- On Self-Reflection -
Kentetsu Takamori
#53. I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#55. At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You take it away, there is nothing but a self-reflection of stagnation for him.
Lionel Suggs
#56. Self-reflection is the gateway to freedom. It also brings greater appreciation and enjoyment. We begin to enjoy spending time with our own mind, and we enjoy reflecting on our experience of the teachings. Like the sun emerging from behind the clouds, the teachings of the dharma become clear.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
#57. What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. We picked the dimension according to our self-reflection.
Frederick Lenz
#58. Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.
Kelly Rowland
#59. When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.
Jeanette Winterson
#60. The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?
Philip Yancey
#61. I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
Aloe Blacc
#62. You won't find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours.
Shannon L. Alder
#63. I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.
Maija Haavisto
#64. Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."
Abraham Maslow
#65. All the people in the Kuo-ch'ing monastery They say, "Han-shan is an idiot." "Am I really an idiot:" I reflect. But my reflections fail to solve the question: for I myself do not know who the self is, And how can others know who I am?
Hanshan
#66. What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?
Justina Chen
#67. Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.
Paul Morabito
#68. My mind is like a little house,
My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And the cabinets rifle through.
They throw things out;
They put things in,
And erase the writing on the wall,
And by the time that they walk out,
It's not my mind at all.
Margo T. Rose
#69. There's nothing we fear more than our own Reflection. We scream at the monsters within us, hidden deep within our hearts. We run and hide from the terrors all around us- the different mirrors that we see.
Solange Nicole
#70. Begin to see the violence around you; begin to see the violence within you.
Bryant McGill
#71. And I saw my reflection in a lake and I waited for it to freeze a little bit so I could break it with my boot.
Sam Pink
#72. There's just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It's not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it's that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don't see what you wish to see - or glimpse something that you wish weren't there.
Dean Koontz
#73. But who then was he? What could his own self really consist of? He bent over that self in order to peer into it, but all he could find was the reflection of himself bending over himself to peer into that self ... Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere
Milan Kundera
#74. My parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife-everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. Well, it finally dawned on me that my reflection in others' eyes was the truth once removed.
Richard Moran
#75. That's exactly the good thing about the Injun life
you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'
which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks
Jim Fergus
#77. When I look back and reflect even to this day I made the decision to stop feeling sorry for myself and to move forward even when I felt like I didn't want to
Shellie Palmer
#78. What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind's reflection.
Debasish Mridha
#79. With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#80. While I do not squirm under attention as much as I did back then, I'm also very okay with not having all eyes on me. This is something that anyone close to me would tell you: I'm somewhat shy, not a showoff. I'm a flower that doesn't require a lot of sunlight. Make sense?
Connor Franta
#81. Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections
Ryuho Okawa
#82. Whatever you see when you look at your self will be the reflection of your inner perception.
Debasish Mridha
#83. The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.
James Joyce
#85. Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.
Lena Dunham
#86. The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart ...
John Geddes
#87. Time alone can help us to look inward, to fish for things that others can't see.
Fennel Hudson
#88. Talking with Elaine like that, with no judgment from her or anything, seemed to bring my feelings more to the surface so I could look at them. I love times like that; you don't get many of them.
(Walker, in STOTAN!)
Chris Crutcher
#89. The intrinsic and extrinsic heart is always at odds, so which heart is yours? For one will bask in true joy, while the other lives in self-loathing misery.
Joel T. McGrath
#90. In the mirror you see the reflection of your face. In the world you see the reflection of your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#91. The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror.
Ryan Lilly
#92. Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.
Vironika Tugaleva
#93. If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?
Na'ama Yehuda
#94. Mark my words: Being dead isn't all sitting around in remorseful reflection and bitter self-recrimination. Death, like life, is what you make of it.
Chuck Palahniuk
#95. Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#96. ...self-discovery has been so tainted by technology and the fear of loss it creates. The immediacy that the internet and all things digital provide has cut off an arm of real experience, trumping virtual validation over lived reflection.
Emma Bee Bernstein
#97. He who does not see the light in others does not see the light in himself.
Doreen DeVore
#98. This world is your mirror. Wherever you go, you see a reflection of your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.
Aubrey De Grey
#100. Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
Yasmin Mogahed
