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Quotes About Reflection

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
~ Aldo Leopold
The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.
~ Terence McKenna
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
~ Mary Oliver
I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
~ Paul McCartney
The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.
~ Brian Weiss
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
~ Edward Coke
Where have all the flowers gone
~ Marlene Dietrich
Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.
~ Blaise Pascal
The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
~ Thomas Merton
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.
~ Donald Miller
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
~ William Shakespeare
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.
~ Seungsahn
To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long.
~ John Moffitt
It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.
~ Nikki Sixx
When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.
~ Alan Watts
I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.
~ Teresa of Avila
Introspection is always retrospection
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
~ Joseph Campbell
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.
~ Andre Kostelanetz