Quotes About Reflection

They tell me that you'll lose you mind when you grow older. What they don't say is that you won't miss it very much.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

A mirror has no heart but plenty of ideas.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that even your behavior's part of its plan.

Hugh put one foot up on the parapet and regarded his cigarette that seemed bent, like humanity, on consuming itself as quickly as possible.

For as we stretch & strain to look through the various windows into the past, we do not merely see a bygone people hunting, fishing, painting their bodies, & dancing their dances. If we look long enough, if we dwell on their joy, fear, & reverence, we may in the end catch glimpses of almost forgotten aspects of our own selves.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Jane never forgot her first Easter day at Moor End. Many times later in her life she came back to the place she had learned to love but the memory of this one day never faded. Everything about the day was right. The weather was perfect. Sun, cloud, wind, and blue skies. An April day. Everything was fresh and clean. Everything was growing again and even Jane could sense something of the message of Easter.

Eating well. Exercising well. Sleeping well and loving generously. All of these things slow us down and bring us stillness, revealing and enabling this wise part of ourselves.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

The clock tells you everything and keeps you busy enough to forget that there could be another way of living your life.

Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware of all life's artifices. Getting dressed, wearing make-up, laughing, having fun-isn't all that just playing a role? Am I not more profound, carrying the burden of those twenty years when I 'wasn't alive', than all those who rushed around in vain during that time?

Affirmations help anchor and center us; they also remind us of what's important and why we make certain choices in our lives. You

When we slow down to notice, the universe gives us the signs we need.

Embracing small personal changes can be the first step toward creating greater change in the world, and humanity at large.

Sitting in stillness helped me feel connected to something bigger than my own daily drama, and it gradually instilled in me a quiet confidence in my own voice and perspective.