Self Reflection Quotes

“By going to places where I do not belong, I experience the art of living - orientation through disorientation. All the deserts of the world lie within us, after all.”
― Reinhold Messner, My Life at the Limit

“Everything is perspectival, in other words, it all depends on your perspective, your frame of reference. Since our informational world is of mental abstractive construction, it’s always up to you to decide what’s real to you – everything you find real is indeed real to you, not necessarily real to others who are at the same time, for a lack of a better word, your past and future incarnations. We all are different points of view on oneself, within our own holographic self-reflection.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, Theology of Digital Physics: Phenomenal Consciousness, The Cosmic Self & The Pantheistic Interpretation of Our Holographic Reality

“Was it a craving for salt, or for pain?”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“today i saw myself for the first time
when i dusted off
the mirror of my mind
and the woman looking back
took my breath away
who was this beautiful beastling
this extra-celestial earthling
i touched my face and my reflection
touched the woman of my dreams
all her gorgeous smirking back at me
my knees surrendered to the earth
as i wept and sighed at how
i’d gone my whole life
being myself
but not seeing myself
spent decades living inside my body
never left it once
yet managed to miss all its miracles
isn’t it funny how you can
occupy a space without
being in touch with it
how it took so long for me
to open the eyes of my eyes
embrace the heart of my heart
kiss the soles of my swollen feet
and hear them whisper
thank you
thank you
thank you
for noticing”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“What enables him to think of himself as sane is only a certain fragile chemical good fortune, but he knows he would be very much in the market for a tragedy if ever life chose to test him properly.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“I don't think psychoanalysis is nonsense necessarily; I just don't see the point of it. An analyst can find out where the problem lie, but a witch from the jungle can do that as well. If I'm not allowed to live my own life, no psychologist is ever going to be able to help me. The real problem is that most people don't live their lives, they just get by somehow.”
― Reinhold Messner, My Life at the Limit

“Self awareness leads to self development.”
― Janna Cachola

“Stevie had never put these Stevies together to assemble a portrait of herself—her choices had not been failures. They had been choices. It was all one Stevie, and that Stevie was worthwhile.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall

“i am nothing but bits of paper, grains of sand pressed hot against hard flesh, campfires burning bright against the still night. i am man‑flesh human life walking ~ dreaming, twitching under the noonday sun.”
― Scott C. Holstad

“Now, you see darkly through a mirror of metaphors, but through your clouded perceptions, the complete spectrum of human emotions will illuminate your world with the divine light of the ever-expanding truth.
It is precisely this vast world of billions of people that will show you the truth of your existence.”
― KA Chinery, Perceptions From the Photon Frequency: the ascended version

“Digital Pantheism implies omniversal ocean of pure, vibrant consciousness in motion, self-referential creative divine force expressing oneself in various forms and patterns. 'I am' the Alpha, Theta & Omega - the ultimate self-causation, self-reflection and self-manifestation instantiated by mathematical codes and fractal geometry.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, Theology of Digital Physics: Phenomenal Consciousness, The Cosmic Self & The Pantheistic Interpretation of Our Holographic Reality

“Remind yourself that people are watching you. They are observing ever so secretly your attitude and why you do what you’re doing more than what you are doing. At the end of the day, people buy because they believe you, trust you and like you. Notice there is little about the words we craft or the speed we travel. The best gift we could give ourselves is a mirror. Taking a hard look at our attitude and improving it may be the single most important thing we can do to turn a mess into a message.”
― Chris J. Gregas

“He once fantasized that his worries would be stilled if he lived elsewhere, if he attained a few professional goals, if he had a family. But nothing has ever made a difference. He is, he can see, anxious to the core, in his most basic make-up: a frightened, ill-adjusted creature.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“He is aware that his strong, capable wife is not the best person around whom to have a nervous breakdown. There was a time he would have felt bitter about this. 'Insomnia isn't glamorous. Just come to bed', is all Kirsten would say if she woke up now and saw the light on in the den. He's learned, over many painful episodes, that his beautiful intelligent wife doesn't do reassurance.
But better than that, he's started to understand why. She isn't mean; it's her experience of men and her defences against being let down kicking in. It's just how she processes challenges. It helps to see these things; he is accruing alternatives to vengeance and anger.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“The Romantic ideas are, he knows now, a recipe for disaster. His readiness for marriage is based on a quite different set of criteria. He is ready for marriage because - to begin the list - he has given up on perfection.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“The trick is perhaps not to start a new life but to learn to reconsider the old one with less jaded and habituated eyes.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“I think about all the things money can and cannot buy.

A spot at SCC, but not a moral compass. Health care and rehab, but not immunity from our worst impulses. Fluency in Mandarin, but not the ability to talk honestly.

Privilege and large heaping chunks of the world, but not confidence. Or self-reflection.

And certainly not courage. No, money doesn’t buy courage. In fact, if I’ve learned anything since the scandal, it’s that the opposite is true.

Money makes you weak because it tricks you into thinking you’re strong.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Admission

“My mistake was confusing his dreams as our shared dreams. I showed him and his dreams way more love than I ever showed myself which in turn resulted in a horrible ending to a five-year relationship.”
― Talisha Renee, Finding the Way Back to Me

“Eliza wondered how many of her decisions were basically points of honour. Throughout her life, her job at the university, the bicycles and vegetarianism, even her haircut seemed as if they were chosen in reaction to the opinions of an invisible audience. She had become the sort of person she approved of but she wasn't sure she had chosen anything she actually wanted.”
― Sophie Ward

“Kindness is not a journey for the meek and mild. For those of us who have been steeped in ways of being that are not kind, it takes tremendous energy to purge ourselves of patterns and behaviors that are not kind. Every day we have to choose to commit to live out kindness that day.”
― Bruce Reyes-Chow, In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World

“Self-awareness is a good which still can, in some cases, steal one's innocence - for it is often much worse to know better without the discipline to do better.”
― Criss Jami

“Not everyone dares to know what people think about them.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Accustomed to himself, he then felt not so interesting. He knew himself too well; he thence hid out for some mystery.”
― Criss Jami

“Thoughtfully Fit is all about focusing on how you can be different—not anyone else. This isn’t about changing your boss or your spouse or your neighbor. Only they can do that. All you can do is change yourself.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“New awareness gives you access to new actions. That’s the power of questions: they create new awareness. And when you identify the options and choose the path forward, you are totally sold on executing it.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“How much of our human feeling can we dispense with in the name of freedom,would you say, before we cease to feel either human or free? Or were we suffering from the incurable English disease of needing to play the world's game when we weren't world players anymore?”
― John le Carré

“An important objective of self-reflection is to obtain access to the unconscious. It is understood that certain aspects of everyone are known to them, while an indeterminate number of other elements are unknown. As Erikson (1980), Freud (2010), and Kohut (1971) suggest, unknown elements of an individual’s personality significantly influence behaviour.”
― Laurie Ponsford-Hill, The Art of Self-Supervision: Studying the Link Between Self-Reflection and Self-Care

“Imagining yourself to be in the place of a person who failed in handling a problem in his life and thinking that you could have done it better in his place is bullsh*t.”
― kartik kumar

“Learn to look after your needs and desires and let go of whatever is not serving you. Take time out for yourself and love the person in the mirror.”
― Dee Waldeck