Quotes About Reflection

Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you'll see in your arms is yourself.

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

I don't know if I personally instill a fear in people, but I think that there are things that I have been involved in that perhaps stir up their own personal fears.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

Don't be afraid of failure. Never fear it because there's always a lesson if you're open to it. There's always a lesson at the end of it. Always.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.