Quotes About Reflection

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

Fear is the start of wisdom.

The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.

Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil.

My fear of anger taught me nothing.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear.

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

At one point, we were all fearful. But as you get older, it's the things you don't do that you regret, more so than the things you do. When fear knocks, answer.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

As I get older, I fear aging less because I realize it's the inevitable, but I definitely have a slight fear of aging.

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.

Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?

We can't fear the future with a present mindset. We must ask ourselves questions we do not know the answers to, we should disrupt ourselves to grow.

When we hit our lowest point, we open up to our greatest change.

It's true that I will not take anything with me when I leave this world. But I will definitely leave something to someone to remember me.

Never forget how blessed you are. Don't be negative when you have so much to be positive about.