Quotes About Reflection

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

Man made God in his own image.

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

The oars game me power but also taught me humility.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

When I look in the mirror I see my parents' sacrifices being honored. I see the love from which I was created and the power of the human spirit.

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.

Greatness knows itself.