Quotes About Reflection

Me in a one-man tent crouching over carrier bag. It's not just the lowest point of the trip. It's the lowest point ever. In 38 years.

Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

The battlefield is cold... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

Any man can be 62, but it takes a bus to be 62A.

When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

I have experienced a lot in my life - some good, some bad ­­- but all of those experiences make up the man I am today.

Age will flatten a man.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.