Quotes About Reflection

Every mind should reflect to touch the green of life through trees.

The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart.

In searching for myself, I have created myself.

Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.

We always talk about our feelings, neglecting the important matters that have to be look over.

That time is long gone. But aren't we still the same people?

Look at 'em, ' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

Humans, left to own misguided devices, scratches the Divine in the self as one would the lice, but remember to lick well all the vices.

The more you hate, more you think about it, more you increase your own stress.

However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It's only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias.

A journey through nature is always a road thatleads to self-discovery.

A journey through nature is always a road to leads to self-discovery.

I cannot tarry longer.The sea that calls all things unto her calls me

As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.

I sometimes wonder how many beautiful black sweaters have been knit from my wool.

In the darkness, she listened to the silence. She wallowed in the beautiful nothing it made.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.

Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (...) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates.

Listen to your instinct. It is your greatest treasure. Your beauty in the outside reflects your inner beauty.

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.

Our nature gives us purpose, to reflect and act upon, responsibly by choice.