Quotes About Reflection

The farther backward you look, the farther forward you are likely to see," Winston Churchill once said.

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Reading — the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

There was a general belief that a long and unpleasant holiday was of crucial importance to one's development as a human being.

Never give reasons for what you think or do until you must. Maybe after a while, a better reason will pop into your head.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself one way or the other at all. . . . The humility which consists in being a great deal occupied about yourself, and saying you are of little worth, is not Christian humility. It is one form of self-occupation and a very poor and futile one at that.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all

Your religion is what you do with your solitude.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

Martin Luther's statement is often quoted, "I have so much to do that I must spend the first three hours in prayer.

Norwegian theologian O. Hallesby is "to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world or material surroundings as a whole in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things."The

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

The flies of some other summer darkening its windowsills.

But you didn't lose touch with a place when it wasn't there any more, you didn't lose touch with yourself as you were when you were part of it, with your childhood, with your simplicity then.

All this occupied his thoughts when he revisited the places of his war. Tramping over soil fed by the blood of men he had led and whose faces now stirred in his memory, it was his wife's response that came - as if in compensation for too little said before - when he wondered why his wandering had led him back to these old battlefields: in his sixty-ninth year he was establishing his survivor's status.

Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.

George Bernard Shaw once observed: "People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

To accept our past, it helps to reframe our stories and give a positive meaning to even the most difficult life events. We may have no power to change the past, but we do have the power to change the meaning we assign to it.

How many of us can honestly say that we have plumbed the depths of our minds and hearts? How many of us regularly listen to ourselves with empathy and understanding—in the supportive way that a trusted friend can?