Quotes About Reflection

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

Silence is often advantageous.

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn't catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don't at first recognize it for what it is.

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

Meditation is nothing but taking a mental shower.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.