Quotes About Reflection

The day our memories become larger than our dreams is the day our soul begins to shrink." —IKE REIGHARD

Work might come later, but for now, he needed God's perspective. And the only way to get it was to stop, look, listen, and remember the goodness and greatness of Almighty God.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

Words are the visible clothes that our invisible thoughts wear."—IKE REIGHARD

When our lives are in alignment with God's will, the Scriptures affirm our direction; when we're off base, it shines its light on our selfishness and disobedience.

Two things to remember in life: "Take care of your thoughts when you're alone", and "Take care of your words when you're with people.

A poet stated it more succinctly when he wrote, "I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed." Interestingly enough, you will discover that when you read this book a second time, you will get more thoughts and more ideas than you did the first time. This is especially true if you read a few minutes every day before you start your day's activities and just before you go to sleep.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." —Edith Wharton

When we've gone down the wrong road for a long time, even destructive habits can feel very comfortable.

We have to break this cycle, back up, regroup, and bring some sanity to our lives so we'll have the perspective, energy, and compassion for the people we see each day, and especially those who live under the same roof with us. Then we can love them like we love ourselves.

A snapshot of our thoughts gives us a picture of the content of our hearts, and what we hold in our hearts serves as the ground, seed, and fertilizer for what grows into our attitudes and actions.

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying." —Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Times of isolation with God will precede the times of inspiration we receive from God."—IKE REIGHARD

I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

Because life is a learning experience, fishing without counting the fish is happiness.

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

We need useless theory more than ever today.

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

Fantasy is a means for an ideology to take its own failure into account in advance.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.