Quotes About Reflection

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality?

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.