Quotes About Reflection

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and not from within us, from the inner sanctuary of our being.

It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

I disappeared in her and she, wondering where I went, left.

Or, I don't know, how about this: the important thing isn't what's gone or lost, it's seeing and knowing what's still there and how it can grow.

The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.

As a parent, my fear is that when we die, we'll have to watch all those moments in our lives when we were short tempered with our children, all the times they needed our love and we didn't give it, all those times we were distracted or in a bad mood, and all the times we were angry or impatient. My fear is that when the time comes, I'll have to watch all those moments again. That they'll make us watch them before we can get into Heaven

Deferring judgement to a later date resolves nothing and all you are left with is a box of jumbled slides and a collection of knick-knacks and odds and ends. Here a face. There a sunset.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

If I could interview that horse, Walter mused, I'd know the boy a whole lot better.

I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think.

You look at me like I have something to be sad about. My existence makes you grateful you are not me.

It is easier to bring up death when it's not in the same area code as you are, and it wasn't back then. It is probably worth noting that nobody has mentioned it to me in the last couple of years.

grief just sits there.

You don't really know anything about yourself until you've been forced to deal with pain, real pain.

women are proof than man was just God's first draft.