Quotes About Reflection

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

I did not have to believe. I only had to wonder.

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.

... too much brooding, not enough doing.

In the experience is the emotion. In the emotion is the gift.

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.

To fear retirement is to fear life.

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

Thank Heaven for Retirement!

When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.

The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You.

Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.