Quotes About Reflection

I existed in a cocoon, wrapped in daydreams. It's dangerous to be too much alone with an imagination.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Look beyond what you see.

I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God's infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God's image.

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

To find yourself, think for yourself.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.

Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.

I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

Die with memories, not dreams.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.