Quotes About Reflection

Pooh and Piglet were sitting together over breakfast at that pleasant time of the day when you know that there is much to be done but not quite yet.

I wonder why things have to change

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

Insight meditation11 requires neither a blank mind, generating special imagery nor repeating a mantra, but trains the mind to dispassionately observe the phenomena constantly appearing on its luminous screen.

Writing is no answer but when you feel deeply there is little else to do.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Being in trouble can have a funny effect on the mind. I don't know if I can explain this. You go through some days and you seem to be hearing people and you seem to be talking to them and you seem to be doing your work, or, at least, your work gets done; but you haven't seen or heard a soul and if someone asked you what you have done that day you'd have to think awhile before you could answer.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

It was as if in exploring each other, each of them discovered something of himself he had not yet learned to love.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.

Ah! when shall it dawn on the night of the grave!

He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, And naught but the nightingales song in the grove.

Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.

I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

Wish I had known what seemed so strong has been and gone.

Ideas cannot be changed through argument. We are not seeking to discover new ideas but rather to create new attitudes in ourselves and others with regard to ideas.

Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

That favorite subject, Myself.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams.