Quotes About Reflection

Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.

For it is only in other people's gaze that we see ourselves, isn't it?

Consider That Ye May Be Wrong.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but somehow cheerfulness was always breaking in.

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these become at last their most serious concerns.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

Thus idly busy rolls their world away

O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease!

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.

My friends, my children, and fellow sufferers, when I reflect on the distribution of good and evil here below, I find that much has been given man to enjoy, yet still more to suffer. Though we should examine the whole world, we shall not find one man so happy as to have nothing left to wish for; but we daily see thousands who by suicide shew us they have nothing left to hope. In this life then it appears that we cannot be entirely blest; but yet we may be completely miserable!

Thus, my children, after men have travelled through a few stages in vice, shame forsakes them, and returns back to wait upon the few virtues they have still remaining.

Premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.

The country blooms—a garden, and a grave.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Neurosis is the rule, not the exception', and grasping this can help us to see that we are not alone. It is also the starting point for understanding what went wrong and learning that we have a choice: we can simply re-enact the past, or we can rewrite the script.

How we react to our friends as well as who we pick as a lover, our abilities and interests at work, in fact almost everything about our psychology as an adult is continually reflecting our childhood in our day-to-day, moment-by-moment experience.

In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars… and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything… other than how heavy… and awkward the bottle had become.

The fine art is about asking questions and how we understand our world and our place in it.

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