Quotes About Reflection

If we let ourselves get lost in the shuffle of daily life, as we hurry along we end up knowing more about our shoes from looking down than about the stars—or life's unseen possibilities—from pausing for a few moments here and there to gaze upward and beyond … and adjust our course accordingly. My

Don't be so easy on yourself, it said.

But what Ramanujan wanted more, more than anything, was simply the freedom to do as he wished, to be left alone to think, to dream, to create, to lose himself in a world of his own making.

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.

But reflection without action is ultimately as unproductive as action without reflection.

Instead of regarding them as things that just need to go away, we look at the behaviors as a precious resource, valuable information that can be mined to develop a more satisfying picture of what may really be happening. Another

Bridgewater's Ray Dalio, for example, places a high premium on what he calls "radical open-mindedness," by which he means something qualitatively beyond a mere willingness to listen to a competing view when and if it comes to call. "To be radically open-minded," he says, "you need to be so open to the possibility that you might be making a mistake and/or that you have a weakness that you encourage others to tell you so.

It is hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I have done." Jeffrey Dahmer 

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Eres un buen chico. No dejes que nadie te quite eso... Nunca pienses lo contrario. Te preocupas por los demás. Eso es fácil de perder... Preocuparse por las personas. Nos enfocamos tanto en lo que necesitamos... Que dejamos de preocuparnos por las demás personas. Tal vez es lo que debemos hacer para sobrevivir... Pero te quita un pedazo del alma... Cada vez.

I was married to Erma for almost forty years, you can't be jealous of my memories

Wie viele gute Jahre bleiben mir wohl noch? ----- Gute Jahre? Keine. Keiner hat mehr gute Jahre. Und falls du deine Lebenserwartung meinst... Wir sitzen alle im gleichen Boot.

Just be an observer, not a reactor, to your emotions.

Life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up'. There is something I want you to learn.

only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.

the only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.

treasure is crisis, because what you get in the end is yourself.

and when he sat against trees to catch his breath he marveled at how full life felt when a person got to be excellent

When we understand that vacate is a form of the Latin verb meaning "be still," we can understand more fully what scholar Simon Tugwell meant when he said, "God invites us to take a holiday [vacation], to stop being God for a while, and let him be God."2

So often we read through the scriptures—day in and day out, week after week and month after month, from start to finish—and seldom take the time to step back, ponder and reflect on the larger themes and doctrinal refrains that work their way through the scriptures and the history of the Church.

If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the end of our own life's journey.

because yes – he likes to 'write' – but to 'do' – to do a particular thing – perhaps on paper (perhaps on canvas – perhaps in stone – perhaps, perhaps in a musical score) – a thing that will stand, a thing that will bear (that will sustain) repeated contemplation: a thing that will sustain long contemplation, and that will (in a 'deep' enough way) reward the beholder.

Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?