Quotes About Reflection

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

The act of dying is also one of the acts of life.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man—yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives other than that which he loses.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.