Quotes About Reflection

Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?

We should learn by reflection on the misfortunes of others that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

If you would but exchange places with the other fellow how much more you could appreciate your own position.

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.

Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.

Forgive others often yourself never.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.