Quotes About Reflection

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.

People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.