Quotes About Reflection

We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves.

Difficult personalities are a mirror for the places where we get stuck in judgment, fear, and confusion.

The more my mind began to quiet, the more I found myself wanting to be surrounded by natural beauty.

We will eventually come to realize that acting out our hatred only causes more hatred. Picking up the burning ember of ill will to throw at our enemy burns us before it burns them. Likewise, when we pick up the substance or behavior that allows us to temporarily avoid the pain, we play with fire. It may feel warm and fuzzy at first, but it will inevitably burn us to the core.

A good basic guideline for our speech is to reflect on whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be times when we are honest in what we say, but our words are too brutal or harsh. And there may be other times when we are deliberately being kind with the words we choose, but what we are saying is not totally true.

In the beginning we are all floating downstream. At some point we become aware that the currents are dragging us down and that we are no longer satisfied with the status quo of human

In the beginning we are all floating downstream. At some point we become aware that the currents are dragging us down and that we are no longer satisfied with the status quo of human existence.

Your mind has what you might call an automatic search function, which means that when you ask yourself a question, your mind automatically begins to search for an answer.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

In the world of old memories, there's no room for visitors

Was man verloren hat, findet sich manchmal wieder, aber was man aufgegeben hat, kommt nie zurück.

In the world of old memories, there's room for visitors

Instead, Emerson came to accept that when someone dies, things that belong to you disappear, too.

I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Each new generation, he thought, fails to learn from the one before.

once death had settled upon a man or woman, there was much to remember but little more to say or do.

Why had a gold hoop earring, one of a pair, tuned up on the kitchen floor when she was

There is something so absurd about time and how it has simultaneously preserved and demolished our faces.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

He says, "But, hey, wouldn't it be weird-if Bennu wakes up from the operation, and he's all tall and stuff, and then he doesn't recognize himself in the mirror?

The most peaceful memory I have is of when I drown.

Everyone, it seems, wants absolution for something.