Quotes About Reflection

Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.

The thoughtful little things we do each day have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.

Letter writing is a habit that allows us to explore new trails all our lives. Each day is a fresh new adventure when we regularly send and receive letters.

Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas to communicate. But few of us desire solitude all the time .... Yet solitude is what makes us contemplative and receptive, more aware of life's gifts and our own special blessings.

Our lives are made up of time, and the quality of our existence depends on our wise use of the moments we are given.

The art of living in today's world requires us to reach inside ourselves and search for the answers.

The supreme good—to examine everything—a life which was not devoted to such research would not be worth living. Happiness would thus consist in their never-ending quest. PLATO

What we love we grow to resemble. SAINT BERNARD T

E. B. White, who once wrote, "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. GOETHE

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

La ponctuation, ce n'est pas de l'orthographe, c'est de la pensée.

I'm nearly thirty, and up to now I've lived as the grass grows. What terrible emptiness! Nothing but selfishness and indifference to others. I must pull myself up before it is too late. Ivan Ilich Telegin.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

El tiempo físico nos es extraño, mientras el tiempo interior es nosotros mismos.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

This was why. So that she would become conscious.

the question is not whether more flies can be caught with honey than with vinegar, but why the flies are being caught in either case—and how this feels to the fly.

However we think about these [long-term] goals, we ought to think about them a lot. They ought to be our touchstone, if only to keep us from being sucked into the quicksand of daily life.

In an autobiographical essay published in 1946, Albert Einstein reflected on his days as a student of physics some fifty years earlier. He recalled his teachers with affection but, referring to exams, said, "This coercion had such a deterring effect that after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around," said the poet Adrienne Rich.

My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Why twice a month? I don't know. It sounds about right to me. (Almost all the specific advice in parenting books is similarly arbitrary. At least I admit it.)

Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around