Quotes About Reflection

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

It's an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.