Quotes About Reflection

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.

A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

I keep people around me that have the freedom to challenge my heart and motive.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

There's a real sense of freedom now. It's a good time to finish, I think. As much as I'm going to miss it I'm ready to move on and do different things.

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.