Quotes About Reflection

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.

This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

Live as though you'll die tomorrow, but farm as though you'll live forever.

What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?

happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.