Quotes About Reflection

Allow not sleep to close your eyes Before three times reflecting on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what left undone?

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Before I leave this world, I am never going to say, "I didn't do this"or "I regret I did that." I am going to say: "I came, I went, I did nothing, I did all.

Lao Tzu said, "In Tao, you should reduce something every day.

Mientras pensamos en el presente, se está convirtiendo en pasado.

History is like a mirror, capable of showing what a man really is

What would you yourself do to remain forever young? What would you confess to the great and silent god that watches in the dark?

Let X be the moon like a notary. Let Y be all things left unsaid.

all of us naked as the day we were born, each of us a candle in the darkness, because while the moon is our soul sister, unlike her we are no one's reflection—we shine in dark places by the light of our own being.

Life is a wheel. The way we end up where we begin. From here everything rises—the worn path, the moon with its long bright ears. Imagine water traveling back up into the sky, the sound of it climbing like a question. Who would we be if we had stayed?

There are so many things to say in the language of our kind, but really, nothing more needs to be said.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.

Whatever has gone on in the outer world has passed me by. But I think if anyone said to me, 'if you go on like this life will pass you by,' I would reply, 'thank God for that, I nearly got mixed up in the beastly thing.

If there were no applause and no criticism, who would you be?

Now I've done and said all I can do and say. I've come to the end of my personality, and now if I want anything it's peace, quiet. The ability, the opportunity to stay in my room and just stagger on. I suppose what I want, in a way, is death.