Reflection Quotes

[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but...

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my ac...

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always t...

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflec...

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is n...

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to t...

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its cou...

Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best...

In each of the early surahs, God spoke intimately to the individual, often preferring to pose many o...

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...

Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might ha...

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliev...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in wh...

Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked up...

But glad to have sat underThunder and rain with you,And grateful tooFor sunlight on the garden.

Gansey clucked at his bedraggled reflection in the dark-framed mirror hanging in the front hallway. ...

In reading, friendship is restored immediately to its original purity. With books there is no forced...

Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is ...

You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than w...

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, le...

We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise...

Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic m...

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the ...

Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit t...

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

So crucify the ego, before it's far too late,To leave behind this place so negative and blindAnd cyn...

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking ...

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and...

The bride waits here," she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming t...

And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom, while out of a still ...

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember wh...

The house in the story is based on my friend Tori's house in Kinsale, Ireland, which is obviously no...

Pegi just recorded "I Don't Want to Talk About," written by Danny Whitten, the original Crazy Horse ...

When evening comes, I go back home, and go to my study. On the threshold I take off my work clothes,...

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, ...

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry b...

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that...

I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters,the ...

Not everyone born free and equal, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then a...

A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and ...

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need ...

I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of you...

This forest silence improves anyone.

I may appear to suffer from some sort of compulsive repetition syndrome, but these rituals are impor...

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its ...

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly ...

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but t...

Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest...

Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fi...

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe,...

Better to be dirty than dead.

She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can thi...

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that ...

A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of sil...

The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts t...

Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of ...

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit ...

Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see i...

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we...

Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is ...

On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it da...

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulu...

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so litt...

To write the poem of the human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it only of the most in...

Oh, listen. Listen!' A sound like a big crowd a good way off, excited and shouting, getting closer. ...

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women...

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are...

[My grandfather] returned to what he called ‘studying.’ He sat looking down at his lap, his left han...

Reflection makes men cowards.

Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a ...

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure yo...

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak f...

Oh fair enough are sky and plain,But I know fairer far:Those are as beautiful againThat in the water...

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of th...

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything h...

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers...

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.