Quotes About Reflection

Christmas makes me schmaltzy. I'm proud to be level-headed, even a little tough most of the time. But once a year I like to believe that peace on earth may be possible and calories don't count.

The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.

...I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind...

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

Religion of Blue CircleTo bring and give a lesson, is to leave the last lesson not pronounced.Amen, Petra Cecilia Maria HermansAugust 29, 2016AmenGod

Inner peace is a quiet evening moonlight walk in the soft falling snow of our minds

Any time you can gain clarity and higher meaning, you allow more inner peace and more prosperity.

What you've already known stops you to wonder and it gives you peace.

Boredom is peace misunderstood.

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.