Joss Whedon Quotes

True atonement isn't the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

I'm pretty self-aware, and I am an embarrassingly flawed human being in a ton of ways.

Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.

A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.

If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I'm not a perfect human being.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

I think I surprise myself.