Quotes About Reflection

There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.

The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line of fear, because that is ultimately our line of growth.

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.

Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.

After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.