Reflection Quotes
Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.
Many CastlesOn My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the oasis Where the heart And the silence Intertwine.
Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat cries.
Strength isn't measured by how many things or people you manage but more prevalent is how much you can self manage and guide yourself to your next check point.
You're surroundings can either be a reflection of you or you can end up being a reflection of your surroundings. Ultimately, one will occur noticeably or unnoticeably.
You will not really know where you stand until you have been tested.
And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?
if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
Anger is the mirror image of fear. It begins as fear, and is expressed outwardly as anger.
When negative feelings move upon you, reflect, and recognize the danger of feeding those feelings and keeping them alive.
Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.
Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.
Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?
I look around the room and can't help but think about how it is the little things we look back on in life. I wonder how often people think that they should pay more attention to them.
Reflection is a good thing. It allows us to look back in time so we can connect the dots between specific memories to reveal the purpose and meaning behind synchronistic events.
When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.
There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water!
There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.
If you can look yourself in the mirror at the end of each day, knowing that you did your best, or helped someone out, or took the high road and acted with integrity, then that is an awesome day!
I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self.
Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.
Revenge is a lie we fabricate to ease our consciences. But like two negatives can never equal a positive, two wrong deeds cannot make a right. They only screw-up the equation.
I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person.
In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.
In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.
Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?
This forest silence improves anyone.
A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.
Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I’m touching, so I’d better start paying attention to what I’m touching.
Genius is the ability to push one's limits beyond the limits each time, every endeavour.
Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is—and will continue to be—a product of our culture and our collective decisions. Whatever it is, it's what we have made it.
We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception.
Social mores, he argued, rules of protocol, concepts of rectitude and honor had no objective basis. They were only reflections of public and private fears.
The more we connect with our Spiritual self, the uglier sin looks. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.
It is a blessed gift to witness the beauty of each day.
It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.
Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
The 'Big Bang' idea of pseudo armchair pundits, too is as much a theory as a human-like big buffoon, that your so-called 'holy' books call god.
True heartfelt gratitude offers moments of profound reflection, on the blessings which constantly fill our lives (KR, 1998)
Spurgeon challenges us to go to the river of our experience, to pull up bulrushes, and to place them in the Ark of our memory, experiencing again the wonder that allowed our infant faith to flourish.
I think you feel like, unless you're damagedyou're not deep enough or mysterious enoughor complicated enough to ever be appreciated by another.And that is deeply untrue.
It took me a long time to realise that mothers are women who carry youAnd not necessarily in their womb.
As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feetinto the night’s velvet slippersI settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag, of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.