Quotes About Reflection

to be old is to be alive, and the signs of age are also the signs of life.

I age, therefore I live. I have aged, therefore I am.

we know perfectly well that all was not paradise at the time of our earliest loves; what we wish for, even in knowing the vanity of this wish, is to return there now with our emptiness, our desires, and our imagination.

Often, as I reflected on this story, it seemed to me a kind of image of my own life—the life of a man who gorged himself on pessimism, believing he would find in it a means to a dazzling and meteoric existence, loving his own despair until the day he realized—too late—that he could no longer emerge from it, and that he had thus fallen into the trap of his own enchantments.

tell me how you age, and I will tell you what you were.

Albert Einstein: "If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend fifty-five minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.

Early in my career, during my first few years at Oracle, I defined my success by making money and achieving power. By my early thirties, however, I realized that these superficial achievements did not provide real meaning or true happiness. Despite a list of impressive titles and a pile of material possessions, I felt that something was missing, and began to consider my place in the world and how I could make a difference.

Let us guard against stripping our science of its share of poetry.

La incomprensión del presente nace fatalmente de la ignorancia del pasado

Arthur went home to think. He thought about turkeys while he did arithmetic. He thought about turkeys while he played the piano. And he thought about turkeys while he and D.W. did the dishes. "Boy," said D.W. "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself." The next morning, Francine, Muffy, and Buster stood before Arthur. They weren't taking any chances. "Do we have a turkey?" they asked. Arthur just smiled.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

you should become detached from your daily occupations, conscientiously devoting to them the time prescribed but with perfect freedom of heart.

In a word, everything [15]was sadness and bitterness. And still peace, always peace, reigned at the bottom of the chalice.

behaviors that will nourish my soul (doing spiritual reading, communing with nature, sitting in silence, listening to classical music, etc.)?

How different would your life be if you lived as if today were your last?

In the morning you used to come to me and [10]ask me if I had raised my heart to God, and then you dressed me. While dressing me you spoke about Him and afterward we knelt down and said our prayers together.

never would I be able to love my Sisters as You love them, unless You, O my Jesus, loved them in me.

Thérèse wrote to her sister Léonie, "this thought of the brevity of life gives me courage, it helps me bear the weariness of the road . . . the hour of rest is approaching

From Thérèse's perspective, "they didn't think about death enough, and yet death had paid its visit to a great number of those whom I knew, the young, the rich, the happy

The kingdom of God is within you."219 Jesus has no need of books or teachers to instruct souls; He teaches without the noise of words.220 Never have I heard Him speak, but I feel that He is within me at each moment; He is guiding and inspiring me with what I must say and do.

what an interesting study the world is when one is ready to leave it!

for a soul that is burning with love cannot remain inactive. No doubt, she will remain at [10]Jesus' feet as did Mary Magdalene, and she will listen to His sweet and burning words. Appearing to do nothing, she will give much more than Martha who torments herself with many things

new peace and strength in my heart: "Life is your barque not your home!

So often, the issues that we are so quick to defend or take offense at too readily are indicative of either a wounded or inflated ego.