Quotes About Reflection

Conscience is the voice of the soul.

Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Polly B. Berends

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

I left parts of myself some places and found others unexpectedly. New people appeared on the scene and others disappeared before I had a chance to say goodbye. All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.

I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant.

The early morning is mine and I'm glad of it. Back home, I bumble about in my vest and shorts, tipping water from the icebox into a bucket to swab the floor, pushing the new block into place. I boil coffee on the Primus and sing to myself as I start clearing away last night's dinner things, carefully observing our systems for the conservation of water.

Seeing the transformation in Aaron made me wonder how it would feel to have someone-even a not-so-nice guy like Aaron- look at me the way he looked at Anjali.

We are still too much a part of the story of what is happening to religious consciousness to assess its meaning.

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.

Simple living high thinking..!!

I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

I am only a poor man, accustomed to small things and silence.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

No desperdicies el recuerdo del camino recorrido. Ello no retrasa vuestra carrera, sino que la dirige; el que olvida el punto de partida, pierde fácilmente la meta.

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.