Quotes About Reflection

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

Learn from the purity of nature.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

I am only human, although I regret it.

Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole.

Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.