Quotes About Reflection

If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Thought is the seed of action.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

We become what we think about all day long.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.

What is the hardest thing in the world To think.

What you see is what it is!

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.