“Self-love and compassion for other people commences with accepting responsibility for the harm caused by our own misconduct and by forgiving other… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
“The real change starts with the individual, because each person's action either heals the world, or further plunges it downhill.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness has to do with waking up and living in harmony with oneself and with the world. It is examining who we… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I can't even fathom myself from twenty-four hours ago. I was so busy following my rotten little heart, Disney princess-style. I did… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I'd spent a year and a half without a record deal and had been doing a lot of soul-searching, a lot of… — Lari White Copy Share Image
When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of the things you believe were never true. They were someone else's fears. Give yourself a chance to examine your thoughts.… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you. — Sufyan al-Thawri Copy Share Image
“Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
