Quotes About Reflection

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, Who has?

He was genuinely sorry for Yossarian; when Yossarian realized that, he was genuinely sorry for Rogoff.

How much longer do you really think your own country will last? Forever? Keep in mind that the earth itself is destined to be destroyed by the sun in twenty-five million years or so.

You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow down?

Actually, he was a very warm, compassionate man who never stopped feeling sorry for himself. "Why me?" was his constant lament, and the question was a good one.

It's absolutely insane. Your conscience will never let you rest." "God bless it." Yossarian laughed. "I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings. Right, Chaplain?

I verily beleive [sic] Page that I shall die soon, and yet I can give no other reason for it but that I am tired with living. At this moment when I am writing I am scarcely sensible that I exist.

How the right hand became disabled would be a long story for the left to tell," he wrote to William Stephens Smith. "It was by one of those follies from which good cannot come, but ill may.

Though we might wish otherwise, the history of what might have been is usually not really history at all, mixing together as it does the messy tangle of past experience with the clairvoyant certainty of our present preferences.

I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they're afraid of not ever having lived, nor ever having deeply considered their life's higher purpose, and not ever having stepped into that purpose, and at least tried to make a difference in this world.

FOR THE BIG DECISIONS IN LIFE, YOU NEED TO REACH A DEEPER REGION OF CONSCIOUSNESS. MAKING DECISIONS THEN BECOMES NOT SO MUCH ABOUT 'DECIDING' AS ABOUT LETTING AN INNER WISDOM EMERGE. – Brian Arthur

Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of man.

When you want wisdom as much as you wanted air when you were immersed in the water, you will receive it.

Long hours, hard labor, or burning the midnight oil will not produce a Milton, a Shakespeare, or a Beethoven. People accomplish great things through quiet moments, imagining that the invisible things from the foundation of time are clearly visible. You can imagine

As within, so without; As above, so below.

Age is not the flight of years; it is really the dawn of wisdom and Divine knowledge in you.

You must choose happiness. Happiness is a habit. It is a good habit on which to ponder often.

What is your idea or feeling about yourself now? Every part of your being expresses that idea. Your vitality, body, financial status, friends, and social status represent a perfect reflection of the idea you have of yourself. This is the real meaning of what is impressed in your subconscious mind, and which is expressed in all phases of your life.

Bir gün yaÅŸad???n?z s?k?nt?lar? ya da hayal k?r?klar?n? bir diÄŸer güne asla ta??may?n.

La edad no es la huida de los años, sino el amanecer de la sabiduría.

Like attracts like. Your world is a mirror reflecting back to you your inner world of thought, feeling, beliefs, and inner conversation.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered

The outside mirrors the inside.

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. MATTHEW 7:1–2.