Quotes about Reflection

Tame your tongue. If you sometimes overreact emotionally, a first step to improvement is to stop yourself from saying things you shouldn't. The next time you want to lash out, hold your tongue for five minutes, and give yourself a chance to cool down and look at things more rationally. Use this strategy repeatedly and you will find yourself in better command of your emotions.

Stories tell us who we are. They… Inspire us. Connect with us. Animate our reasoning process. Give us permission to act. Fire our emotions. Give us pictures of who we aspire to be. Stories are us.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment