Quotes About Reflection

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Oh," every stair creaked faintly, "I ought to have been marble!

You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself.

the stranger met every remark; not a thoughtful pause, but rather as though he wondered if it were worth while to make any answer.

I've come here for the silence," he said. "Silence," repeated

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

We sat outside the studio at night, among a few candles, and closed our eyes for a minute. After that, we jammed straight from our hearts. We didn't play for ourselves, but for the ones no longer with us in flesh, but always with us in spirit. God bless. Until we meet again. Soul fly... fly free

Wise sayings are not always easy to understand at first. Sometimes it takes effort, time, and maturity to comprehend a deeper insight.

Throughout one's Christian life, every believer must be brought back, again and again, to the place of repentance. Brokenness over sin and turning away from sin are to be an ongoing lifestyle, not an occasional event.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence...

And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.

Whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

make for yourself at least a little corner, somewhere in the great world, where you may unbosom and be kind.