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Quotes About Reflection

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.
~ Ira Progoff
I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'
~ Jack Kerouac
Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.
~ Jack Kerouac
Drucker said: 'If you weren't already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to do about it?' ... Simple, right? But incredibly powerful.
~ Jack Welch
We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
~ Jesse Jackson
The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.
~ John C. Maxwell
We celebrate the past to awaken the future.
~ John F. Kennedy
I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.
~ Jonathan Raban
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.
~ Josef Pieper
Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.
~ Julia Cameron
You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.
~ Larry Ellison
Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'.
~ Laurie Davidson
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Whatever I have given, I have gained.
~ Leonard Nimoy
I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.
~ Liz Phair
No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Dogs don't bark at parked cars.
~ Lynne Cheney
Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.
~ Maggie Scarf
We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.
~ Mary Roach
But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'
~ Michael Jordan
In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.
~ Michael Vartan