Quotes About Reflection

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

Your personal growth as a leader will be directly tied to your ability to give and receive feedback.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

living life in a pragmatic, utilitarian manner turns you into a utilitarian pragmatist. The "How do I succeed?" questions quickly eclipse the "Why am I doing this?" questions.

People in the valley have been broken open. They have been reminded that they are not just the parts of themselves that they put on display.

Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; "The night cometh.

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

When people remember the past, they don't only talk about happiness. It is often the ordeals that seem most significant. People shoot for happiness but feel formed through suffering.

There's something deeply important about the early experience of being in the presence of somebody without being impinged upon by their demands, and without them needing you to make a demand on them. And that this creates a space internally into which one can be absorbed. In order to be absorbed one has to feel sufficiently safe, as though there is some shield, or somebody guarding you against dangers such that you can 'forget yourself' and absorb yourself, in a book, say.

She was carried along by events, not reflecting on them, just letting them sweep over her.

trying to mold one's life around the heroic and deep souls one found in books. Day read as if her whole life depended upon it.

The first big thing suffering does is it drags you deeper into yourself.

People who endure suffering are taken beneath the routine busyness of life and find they are not who they believed themselves to be.

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

Sin is a necessary piece of our mental furniture because it reminds us that life is a moral affair.

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

Asked why he thought Florian had left, Wolfgang Flür's reply was terse, but probably accurate: 'Too old, not necessary any more, enough money, especially no more flying: he was tired of all that. I think he should have done it earlier, much earlier.

Maybe I was drinking and drugging more than I should have done. Well, in fact, I know I was for Black Tie White Noise and Let's Dance.

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shackAnd you may find yourself in another part of the worldAnd you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobileAnd you may find yourself in a beautiful house… with a beautiful wifeAnd you may ask yourself, "Well… how did I get here?"

And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well... how did I get here?" Letting the days go by...

The mixtapes we made for ourselves were musical mirrors. The sadness, anger, or frustration you might be feeling at a given time could be encapsulated in the song selection. You made mixtapes that corresponded to emotional states, and they'd be avaliable to pop into the deck when each feeling needed reinforcing or soothing. The mixtape was your friend, your psychiatrist, and your solace.

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

Sometimes it seems as if writing a group of songs is like getting groceries, or doing the laundry—banal things I do more or less on a day-to-day basis. We deal with the issues involved in our mundane activities as they come up