Quotes About Reflection

Each one of us must endure the fruits of his past actions. Whatever a human being is involved in during a lifetime leaves its impression stored in his mind and this impression acts as the seed from which future desires and actions will in time sprout. These seeds may take many births to come to fruition; like any crop, they need favourable conditions to appear. You are a farmer Sir, so you know well the principles involved here".

You will get to where you are going by remembering who you are…

Haste is good only in catching fleas.

Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure [has become] entertainment.

Without the great revelations, epics and philosophies as part of our natural vision, there is nothing to see out there, and eventually little left inside.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

All the terms discussed in Part Two are evidences of this abstractness, simulacra of thought and experience, hardly better than slogans, which take the place of reflection.

God is not creative, for God is not. But God as made by man reflects what man is, unbeknownst to himself. God is said to have made the world of concern to us out of nothing; so man makes something, God, out of nothing. The faith in God and the belief in miracles are closer to the truth than any scientific explanation, which has to overlook or explain away the creative in man.

Philosophy is not a doctrine but a way of life, so the philosophers, for all the differences in their teachings, have more in common with one another than with anyone else, even their own followers.

The Bible is not the only means to furnish a mind, but without a book of similar gravity, read with the gravity of the potential believer, it will remain unfurnished.

But thinking never took away tears. Only time did.

Lifting the pillow, he brought out kanarack's gun and hefted it in his hand. Tipping it toward him, he saw the hole where death came out. It looked easy. Even seductive. The Simplest way of all. No more fear of the police, or of the tall man. Best of all, his pain would be instantly gone. He Wondered why he hadn't thought of it before.

It was a moment before she replied. And in that moment, she realized that what was gone from her was the child in her, she'd crossed a brink from which there was no turning back. Whoever she had been, she was not anymore. And her life, for better or worse, would never again be what it had.

Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

Once you harden, the arteries do.

Serei na vida futura aquilo que eu próprio houver feito de mim nesta vida;

Se tua mão é motivo de escândalo, corta-a; afirmativa enérgica que seria um absurdo se tomada ao pé da letra. Significa, simplesmente, a necessidade de destruir em si todas as causas de escândalo,

porque no hay fe inalterable sino la que puede mirar frente a frente a la razón en todas las edades de la humanidad".

Mundos regeneradores 16. Entre as estrelas que cintilam na abóbada azulada do firmamento, quantos mundos não haverá como o vosso, destinados pelo Senhor à expiação e à provação! Mas também há entre eles mundos mais miseráveis e melhores, como há mundos transitórios, que podemos chamar de regeneradores. Cada turbilhão planetário, a deslocar-se no espaço em torno de um

Se os sofrimentos da vida parecem longos, que seria se a ele se juntasse a lembrança do passado?

Two of the band members in Wings walked out in the same week for different reasons, and he never asked why," Henry mused. "You can take from that what you want.