Quotes About Reflection

Information, contemplated over time, is knowledge.

Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there.

Nick looked back for a moment at the arched sign, but it looked different when it was spelled right-ORPHANAGE. It wasn't EGANAHPRO any more.

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

Why should we feel bound today by a document produced more than two centuries ago by a group of fifty-five mortal men, actually signed by only thirty-nine, a fair number of whom were slaveholders, and adopted in only thirteen states by the votes of fewer than two thousand men, all of whom are long since dead and mainly forgotten?2

At birth, each of us is graced with the simple job of remembering, understanding, and living the essence of who we are.

We spend our lives drowning in the sea of things we never wished to experience.

Too often we develop a blindness for all of the wonderful things in life.

Look through the reels of your memory and embrace them with gratitude.

Errors carry the keys to your salvation.

Errors should free you from the prison of your ignorance rather than shackle you to your lowest moments.

Remember the people who made your life better and say a prayer of gratitude for them

There is something to be gained with each misstep that is ultimately understood.

Ask a friend or family member to do the same. I know several people who keep a gratitude stone in their pocket. Every time they put their hand in their pocket and touch the stone or remove it from their pocket, they think about things for which they are grateful.

I have never got over my surprise," Thoreau once reflected, "that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time, too.

Don't expect wisdom at the moment of death.

The unchosen thing is what causes the trouble. If you don't do something with the unchosen, it will set up a minor infection somewhere in the unconscious and later take its revenge on you. Unlived life does not just "go away"...

No greater glory, no greater honor, is the lot of man departing than a feeling possessed deep in his heart that the world is a better place for his having lived

We catch ourselves thinking, in the bitterness that can accompany the unexpected sound of an aluminum can bending underfoot, that it would have been merciful if Columbus had been wrong and the world flat, with an edge from which to fall, rather than a circular cage that returns us to our mistakes. The geography seems hopeless.

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

when i wake up mornings alone it is more disturbing, when i imagine it could be the living things, that are going out of my life.