Quotes about Reflection

If wrinkles must be written on our brow, let them not be written on our heart. The spirit should not grow old.

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today.

The curtailing of one's desires is the beginning of wisdom; their entire mastery its consumption.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.