Quotes about Reflection

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

Remember that lost time does not return.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

The deepest and most profitable lesson is this,the true knowlege and contempt of ourselves.

Nergens heb ik meer rust gevonden dan in bossen en boeken.

Every time I catch myself trying to figure out other people's motives, I'll stop and ask myself: "What did I say or do that prompted the action? Why did I react to it as I did? Does what happened make a major difference to me, or am I making something big out of a trifle?" Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

O that we had spent but one day in this world thoroughly well!

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.