Quotes about Reflection
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
— Victor Hugo
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
— Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
— Victor Hugo
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
— Victor Hugo
There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.
— Thomas Merton
Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.
— Hildegard of Bingen
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
— Dante Alighieri
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
— Albert Einstein
Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.
— Kent Hughes
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
— Virginia Woolf
Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.
— St. Augustine
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.
— Joseph Campbell