Quotes About Reflection

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

I can make whatever choices I want in my life, and I will live with the consequences of those choices. But if I want to live a life close to my deepest desires, I have to risk knowing who I really am and have always been. Knowing this, then I can choose.

Once in a while, we are given moments of real grace.

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

Non ho mai capito come faccia a ridere in quel modo: ma penso che sia perché ha pianto molto. Solo chi ha pianto molto può apprezzare la vita nelle sue bellezze, e ridere bene.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon our soul.

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

Idyllic memories are merely a jeweled noose.

Another April came to an end, the fifth in succession, and February arrived.

Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.

Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.

Thinking is the toughest kind of work which is why so many people avoid it.

If we're going to make mistakes anyway, we might as well learn from them -- "teachable moments".

Absorption in ease and entertainment is a sure sign of dissipation and decline.

Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.