Quotes About Reflection

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes the next time

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I ask those who will have the patience to read these notes the indulgence usually granted to the writings of painters

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,What would you do differently if you had your life to live over again? I give some sort of answer because I dont wish to be rude, but I dont tell them the image that comes into my mind because they would think it vain and frivolous, and no one wants to be a subject for ridicule. I see myself as a tall, skinny Fellini, vigorously lifting weights. Thats what I would do differently. I would lift weights.

I went sky divin', I went rocky mountain climbin', I went 2.7 seconds on a bull name Fumanchu. And I loved deeper, And I spoke sweeter, And I gave forgiveness I've been denying, And he said someday I hope you get the chance, To live like you were dyin'.

My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.