Quotes about Reflection

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.

It's been said thousands of times, in all faiths and philosophies. Know thyself. What may be less clear in these wise expressions is the reason we learn to know ourselves: we develop a knowledge of self so that we can give up the self and serve others.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.