Quotes About Reflection

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.

Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.