Murray Bookchin Quotes

I think it's important for people like me to evaluate and reevaluate.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

I just try to live a moderate life of always checking and trying to be the best person I can be and I'm in therapy and am always working on something.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.