Quotes About Reflection

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

Man alone is made in the image of God.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.