Quotes About Reflection

Michael Finkel

Time amid the silence of nature, in other words, makes you smarter.

Jefferies wrote, in his autobiography The Story of My Heart, that the type of life celebrated by society, one of hard work and unceasing chores and constant routine, does nothing but "build a wall about the mind.

People are to be taken in very small doses," wrote Emerson. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

The solitary is necessarily a man who does what he wants to do," wrote Thomas Merton, an American Trappist monk who died in 1968. "In fact, he has nothing else to do. That is why his vocation is both dangerous and despised.

I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode,

When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated—the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.

I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

Robert Bertolet. "One of the things was when

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." -Ayn Rand

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." —Leonardo da Vinci

For what purpose have you prayed?" "For thanks. If I must die, at least I have lived. If my companions have perished, at least I have known them. If the world is cruel, at least I have tasted kindness. I had to cross to the far side of the sky to taste it but, as you say, the world is full of miracles.

When your words come out of your mouth and back into your ear, your brain gives them a second rinse, and cleans them up a little better. All Tom knew was that when he tried to explain things to Sharon, his own thinking clarified.

You would rather think about the good than do it.

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.

Dü?ünmenin alternatifi duygular de?il, dü?ünmemektir.

?nsan ba?kalar?n?n kusurlar?n? yabayla saman savururcas?na kolay aç??a ç?kar?r ama kendininkileri kurnaz bir kumarbaz?n zar?n? tutu?undaki ustal?kla saklar." - Buda

?nsanlar?n kötülükleri ya?ar tunçta, yazar?z erdemlerini suya." - Shakespeare

?nsan, hayvan oldu?unu bilen, dolay?s?yla hayvan gibi davranmama seçene?ine sahip tek hayvand?r.

We gaan er altijd van uit dat lezen gemakkelijk is omdat we de techniek die we zo lang geleden hebben geleerd, vergeten zijn en het nu voortdurend zonder nadenken doen. Als een boek dus moeilijk lijkt, moet dat eerder de schuld van het boek zijn dan van de lezer.

Hoe vaker een herinnering uit het geheugen wordt opgediept, hoe onnauwkeuriger de herinnering wordt.

Maybe you can only go back in your mind?