Quotes About Reflection

People are the undisputed experts on themselves. No one has been with them longer, or knows them better than they do themselves. In MI, the helper is a companion who typically does less than half of the talking.

People are more likely to be persuaded by what they hear themselves say.

developing compassion: There is a developmental process for cultivating compassion for others. . . . The first step is knowledge. . . . Then you need to constantly reflect and internalize this knowledge . . . to the point where it will become a conviction. It becomes integrated into your state of mind. . . . Then you get to a point where it becomes spontaneous. (The Dalai Lama & Ekman, 2008, pp.

Even if we, as northerners, choose to ignore this history, the victims' descendants will not

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

William Roberts

Ah! I intended never never to grow old … Listen: New Year's Bell!

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

Fill up the goblet, and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum....

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it.

...though many a gatherer has carried his basket through these diamond districts of the mind...

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

A writer lives at best, in a state of astonishment.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

What, really, do we do with our lives?

Thus the student leaves by the same door through which he entered, and is no different than before. Yet, having internalized all of his practices, he is totally changed.

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.