Quotes About Reflection

To be depressed is, very simply, to be stopped short in one's life.

You should slow down. Learn to enjoy the journey. You never really get where you're going, anyway.

...she made her home in between the pages of books.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

Whether your writing is for personal journals or for publication, there are aspects we all share as writers.

I spent quite a while gazing out and pondering what primeval forces had conspired together to create such a place. Then I ate my sandwiches.

Death comes, and makes a man his prey, A man whose powers are yet unspent; Like one on gathering flowers intent, Whose thoughts are turned another way. Begin betimes to practise good, Lest fate surprise thee unawares Amid thy round of schemes and cares; To-morrow?s task to-day conclude.*

Good words, good deeds, and beautiful expressions A wise man ever culls from every quarter, E?en as a gleaner gathers ears of corn.

To abstain from speaking is regarded as very difficult. It is not possible to say much that is valuable and striking.*

closing your eyes in dark is better than weeping for any thing without any conclusion

The moon is one, but on agitated water it produces many reflections. Similarly ultimate reality is one, yet it appears to be many in a mind agitated by thoughts.

In order to see him it is necessary to meet him in seclusion, far from the main activity of the business scene.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Faith is not an understandable thing, but a thing to grow.

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

If they Brought you back the old cafes, who will bring you back the old friends?

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said. I don't want to return now to the fortress of my father's house. Take me to your vineyard. Let me meet your mother. Perfume me with basil water. Arrange me on silver dishes, comb me, imprison me in your name, let love kill me.

No night is long enough for us to dream twice.