Quotes About Reflection

Solo hay dos formas de estar solo. Sin nadie cerca o en medio de una multitud

Nosce te ipsum —la corregí, conteniendo otra risotada—. Significa «conócete a ti mismo».

For someone who has sinned as much as I have, every moment of contemplation becomes an unexpected gift from the Creator Himself.

Cuidado, creo que se me está empezando a aflojar algún tornillo. Eso es lo malo que tiene la soledad, que ves el mundo al revés y acabas perdiendo tornillos y volviéndote loco.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

We talk of high philosophies and our ancient greatness but act in narrow grooves and show intolerance to our neighbour. These are basic questions for us to keep in mind, for our future depends on the answer that we give to them.

Learning and knowledge make people think, and doubt and questioning are difficult companions for faith to have.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's An Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth and Hind Swaraj, Rabindranath Tagore's Nationalism and Gora, and Jawaharlal's Nehru's An Autobiography—is The Discovery of India.

Philosophy is a dangerous thing for any dogmatic religion; it makes people think.

reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

Emotional Channeling Technique #1: Ask Courageous Questions

Step #1: Identify Your Signature Life Values

We take out our frustrations on unsuspecting strangers every day, never stopping to acknowledge that these people have hopes and dreams just like we do.

To shorten what otherwise might become a long list of possible points of failure, it is sufficient to say that counselors may fail in exactly the same ways that their counselees have failed. Consequently, it is important for counselors to examine their own lives and their counseling practices in the light of every failure they detect in others. Counselees become strong reminders of human error and sin and, in that sense, are among the counselor's most valuable teachers.

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans ' and smile.

You take it for granted that it's always going to be that way; then without warning, it's gone. In an instant, all you're left with are the things you wanted to say, the hopes and dreams you'll never realize, a hole where your heart used to be.

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For three weeks I was in a state of slippage, a gap widening between me and my usual self.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.