Quotes About Reflection

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One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.

Your thoughts are just a diary of your life, you are not your thoughts but the observers of your thoughts. Observe your thoughts and choose your readings carefully »

The formula is simple: In any given situation, detach and ask, "What do I need to do to take care of myself?

We don't have to take other people's behaviors as reflections of our self-worth. We don't have to be embarrassed if someone we love chooses to behave inappropriately. It's normal to react that way, but we don't have to continue to feel embarrassed and less than if someone else continues to behave inappropriately. Each person is responsible for his or her behavior.

It's amazing the things you realize when you lose someone: you get mad at yourself for not saying the things you could've a million times, you take for granted the days spent doing nothing when you could have been with them. Anyone can be taken, at any time in our lives, but we always wait until they're gone to say the things we never had the courage to before.

What if?.. What if I am all to see? What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss? What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday And there is no better way? What then?

Nothing wrong with taking time to figure out your life and make sure you really like where your life is going. I mean, it's better to do it now than when it's too late.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

are fools. Which two? The one who doesn't see his/her transgression as a transgression, and the one who doesn't rightfully pardon another who has confessed his/her transgression. These two are fools. These two are wise. Which two? The one who sees his/her transgression as a transgression, and the one who rightfully pardons another who has confessed his/her transgression. These two are wise.—The Buddha, Anguttara Nikaya

A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have... escaped.

The great end of learning is nothing else but to seek for the lost mind.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Such is life. Sometimes we do not even want to know how much pain we cause others, for fear of spoiling our own petty pleasures. And when the time comes to face the consequences, it is too late to be sorry.

John Maynard Keynes (d. 1946) felt similarly wistful, noting, "I should have drunk more champagne.

Hi ha gent que amb un record, en té per tota una vida.

Escric perquè m'agrada escriure. Si no em semblés exagerat diria que escric per agradar-me a mi. Si de retop el que escric agrada als altres, millor. Potser és més profund. Potser escric per afirmar-me. Per sentir que sóc... I acabo. He parlat de mi i de coses essencials en la meva vida, amb una certa manca de mesura. I la desmesura sempre m'ha fet molta por

Qui sap fins a quin punt som morts quan morim.

La vida, perquè sigui vida, s'ha de viure a poc a poc...

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.