Quotes About Reflection

Sentimentele sunt pamantul in care creste gandurile si ideile.

Set aside a period of 30 minutes each day when you can be alone and undisturbed. Relax and make yourself as comfortable as possible. Now close your eyes and exercise your imagination.

Positive thinking" cannot be used effectively as a patch or a crutch to the same old self-image.

Our aim is to find the real self, and to bring our mental images of ourselves more in line with the objects represented by our goals.

Henri Fehr, the famous Swiss scientist, said that practically all his good ideas came to him when he was not actively engaged in work on a problem, and that most of the discoveries of his contemporaries were made when they were away from their workbench, so to speak.

After you've done this, you can go back into your past and find a "successful" memory, an occasion when you did something well. Again, this could be as simple as tying your shoes for the first time or writing your name in school. When it happened is irrelevant. How "big" the success was doesn't matter either. All that matters is that the memory triggers a positive, happy, feel-good experience in you right now.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have experienced rather than what we have learned intellectually.

Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep

in finding in oneself an individuality, uniqueness, and distinctiveness that is akin to the idea of being created in the image of God.

They stood, caught in the eternity of a moment.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything — except itself.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

Now I become myself. It's taken time, many years and places.

Where can I gowithout my mountall eager and quickHow will I knowin thicket aheadis danger or treasurewhen Body my goodbright dog is deadQuestion, st. 3

Body my housemy horse my houndwhat will I dowhen you are fallenQuestion [1954], st. 1