Quotes About Reflection

The best rule of reading will be a method from nature, and not a mechanical one of hours and pages.

Our thinking is a pious reception.

Man is a god in ruins.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Iako putujemo svetom da na?emo lepotu, moramo je nositi sa sobom ili je ne?emo na?i.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has written.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

As the eyes of Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass, and shows us all things in their right series and procession.

It is not length of life, but depth of life

The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

When I heard the Earth-song / I was no longer brave; / My avarice cooled / Like lust in the chill of the grave.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself

Follow the quiet voice within you that is telling you where to go.

Learn how to carry a friendship greatly, whether or not it is returned. Why should one regret if the receiver is not equally generous? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. If he is unequal, he will presently pass away; but thou art enlarged by thy own shining.

?ovek je ono što misli tokom ?itavog dana

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

I have forgotten the books I have read, and so I have the dinners I have eaten, but they both helped to make me.

In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself.

We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

I chide society, I embrace solitude, and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely, and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate.

Solitude is a sublime mistress but an intolerable wife

If only I have right of seeing In this wilderness of being And from the vision glorious Must come back to my lonely house.

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world.