Quotes About Reflection

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Thug Life to me is dead.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Art is the proper task of life.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.