Quotes about Reflection

If we have not quiet in our own minds, outward comforts will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

History is but a collection of epitaphs.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.

As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.

CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.

Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself;

The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought

There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.