Quotes About Reflection

The American essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Man is what he thinks all day long.

Read the 23rd, 27th, and 91st Psalms, the 11th chapter of Hebrews, the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, and other great texts of the Bible before going to sleep.

Debe elegir felicidad. La felicidad es un hábito. Es un buen hábito meditar con frecuencia en cuantas cosas haya verdaderas, puras, amables y buenas; si alguna virtud hay, si hay alguna cosa digna de alabanza, piense en ella.

Goethe used his imagination wisely when confronted with difficulties and predicaments. His biographers point out that he was accustomed to fill many hours quietly holding imaginary conversations. It is well known that his custom was to imagine one of his friends before him in a chair answering him in the right way.

Yet life is endless. Age is not the flight of years, but the dawn of wisdom.

if in order to live it is necessary not to live, then what's it all for?

to overcome the spiritual entropy of egocentrism by regaining a sense of wonder in the face of the "other" that is beyond ourselves.

It does not matter what people think of a man after his death.

There are some who believe the poem can be a guide, a Virgil, can be a window into a way of being. Do I believe this? Does anyone believe this anymore?

For a real glimpse into an almost vanished world, one should look...at a scorpion who so obviously has no business lingering into the twentieth century. He is not shaped like a spider and he has too many legs to be an insect. Plainly, he is a discontinued model--still running but very difficult, one imagines, to get spare parts for.

Up up and quit your books' is not an adjuration commonly thought advisable in universities but there are occasions -- as for instance, when studying Wordsworth when it might be advisable.

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasure we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives. We believe that the untried soul, trapped in its young prison, might have flown free and known the joy that we still seek.

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

She's out from my life, I don't know whether to laugh or cry

More than anything I wish he were here with me. A relationship is an accumulation of shared history, he'd said to me once. And here I was making history without him. It's lonely. And I can't wait to go home. Parts of me are showing through my Aqua, and I'm having a hard time keeping them separate.

Some people might get obsessed with figuring out how they wound up on the F train in drag, with no bag and only one shoe, but that's simply not my style. What's done is done. I'm sure I had my reasons.

If you start buying your own bullshit, you risk becoming management material.

I've always thought that one of the signs of true adulthood is when you realize that you spend each Christmas trying to relive childhood memories that never really happened in the first place.

People, we're always reaching for these big things... you know? Big ideas... big moments... big lives. And all the while the little things we're ignoring are undoing us.

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind.