Quotes About Reflection

Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

I don't like to write, but I love to have written.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

But I did love you then, only I didn't realize it because it was so strong, and I still do love you, even though I know I've probably blown my chance.

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.

BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST THEN TO HAVE NEVER LOVED AT ALL

Dinner at eight was okay before the toast full of gleams. It was great until those old magazines got us started up again. Actually it was probably me again.

Christmas makes you want to be with people you love. I'm not saying this to hurt you, or because I want to leave you, because I don't. Meredith wasn't a fling. She wasn't revenge. I fell in love with her. That doesn't go away because I decided to stay with you.

Why do we have to listen to our hearts? Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.