Quotes About Reflection

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?

I believe the discussion itself is divine.

What's true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says.

Were one to call your stupid ism good, well then, one would either be equally idiotic, or a fool, or no good.

Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Fate, I respect a lot. I never regret anything.

You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

If each one of us starts thinking, learning, and understanding more about water and the fact that we are water-based ourselves, then we can start to love, thank, and respect water in our daily lives.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.