Self-Reflection quotes
Welcome to our collection of Self-Reflection quotes! This category is dedicated to exploring the profound journey of introspection and self-awareness. Self-reflection is a powerful tool that allows us to delve deep into our thoughts, emotions, and experiences, enabling personal growth and transformation.
In this section, you will find a diverse range of quotes that inspire self-reflection and encourage meaningful contemplation. These quotes serve as reminders to pause, take a step back, and ponder upon our actions, choices, and beliefs. They offer insights into the importance of self-awareness, introspection, and the incredible capacity we have for growth and learning.
Self-reflection is not always an easy process, but it is an essential one. It allows us to gain a better understanding of ourselves, our values, and our purpose in life. Through self-reflection, we can examine our achievements and our failures, our strengths and our weaknesses, and use that knowledge to make positive changes and live a more authentic and fulfilling life.
So, dive into this collection of Self-Reflection quotes, and let them guide you on a personal journey of self-discovery and transformation. May they serve as a source of inspiration, motivation, and guidance as you embark on this beautiful and introspective path.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorIt makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhen you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsI am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
Diana Krall
— Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist & PianistWhen you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerToo-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestWhen we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerYou have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.
Ricky Martin
— MusicianThese years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorWhenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostBefore babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerA lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
Blake Lively
— American actress, model, director, and advocateIf you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.
Jimmy Dore
— American comedian, political commentator, and YouTube personalityTurn off the AM Radio and get invited to your own life.
Pope John XXIII
— Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in 1963The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
Tracey Edmonds
— American businesswoman, television producer and personalityHappy Tuesday! We are responsible for peace and order in our lives! When your world is CONSTANTLY filled with chaos, then it's time to take a look at SELF!
Bipasha Basu
— Indian actress and modelI have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorEverybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.
Andy Cohen
— American ProducerFollow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Alber Elbaz
— Israeli fashion designerI am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'
Adrian Edmondson
— English ActorI'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWhoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsThe whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestFundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
Harvey Mackay
— Business Guru & Motivational SpeakerExploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.
Ricky Martin
— MusicianDuring my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorHalf the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerNew York is a fun town to go out in. During my twenties and into my thirties I had a good time partying, yes. But nothing where I woke up and I thought that I had a problem.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorSo when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterTime is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Ricky Martin
— MusicianIf I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorMy advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorI have control issues. For sure, no question.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorIt's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhen I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorBe your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorIs there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhat I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorProbably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhen one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterAny time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterA man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhy do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up; it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.