Quotes About Reflection

Sometimes dreaming is even better than making plans" -Houndsley

All of our lives are important, even the parts of our past that we have ignored, downplayed, or forgotten. If we open the door to our past, we will discover God there, accompanying us in both happy and sad moments.

When we take ourselves too seriously, we are at the risk of taking other things, including God, too lightly,

All of us need to leave things behind in order to follow God. For some of us, it is addictive patterns of behavior, for others an overweening emphasis on our own success, for others the adulation of the crowd. It helps sometimes to look not just at what we're leaving behind and what God promises us, but also at what God has shown us already. Just look at all those fish.

Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.

Agenbite of inwit. Conscience.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

Face it, people, there is more to your malaise than celestial mechanics. If you want to know why you feel so bad, you must look beyond universal gravitation.

Physics is not about having memorized all the answers, but rather about asking the right questions. For when the right question is posed of a phenomenon, either the answer becomes clear or at least a path to further and more fruitful questioning is revealed.

I saw my face today And it looked older, Without the warmth of wisdom Or the softness Born of pain and waiting. The dreams were gone from my eyes, Hope lost in hollowness On my cheeks, A finger of death Pulling at my jaws. So I did my push-ups And wondered if I'd ever find you, To see my face With friendlier eyes than mine.

I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.

Haltet die Uhren an. Vergesst die Zeit. Ich will euch Geschichten erzählen.

I took some time out for life.

Being Mistreated is the most important condition of mortality, for eternity itself depends on how we view those who mistreat us.

Righteousness is simply a humble understanding of how unrighteous one is coupled with a deep commitment to become better.

As Michael pondered how shallow he had been, he was struck by another thought. It wasn't simply that he hadn't gone deep enough. It was rather that he had grown accustomed to wading in pools that had no depth to begin with. A turn toward holiness would be a turn toward a different life altogether - to a life where different things mattered than had mattered in the past. Did he desire such a life? He knew that of all the questions, this was the most important.

A man should drink in moderation be sensible or silent.                         Hávamál

The unwise man is awake all night, and ponders everything over; when morning comes he is weary in mind, and all is a burden as ever. Hávamál

The greatest danger we face from this machine age is that we will become engrossed with mechanical gadgets and forget we have hearts. Man cannot live by bread alone nor by machinery alone. The heart must be nurtured. For this reason the prophet and the poet are more important to a nation than the engineer or the inventor. Longfellow and Whittier have meant more to us than Edison or Ford. Burns's songs have meant more to Scotland than Watts's steam engine.