Quotes About Reflection

There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

A great truth comes over him: Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

But thoughts don't care about truth and shit. They sit up in your mind and fuck with you whenever.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

Richard Reeves

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

There are times I almost think I am not sure of what I absolutely know. Very often find confusion in conclusion I concluded long ago. In my head are many facts that, as a student, I have studied to procure. In my head are many facts of which I wish I was more certain I was sure.

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

What makes us moral beings is that...there are some acts we believe we ought to die rather than commit...But now suppose that one has in fact done one of the things one could not have imagined doing, and finds that one is still alive. At that point, one's choices are suicide, a life of bottomless self-disgust, and an attempt to live so as never to do such a thing again. Dewey recommends the third choice.

Life gives you all the koans you need.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

In recognition that any good idea is a fragile thing, you have to give it a few minutes to breath—like a good red wine.