Quotes about Reflection

what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose'-how does the quotation run?-'his own soul'?

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Humanity takes itself too seriously.

As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

the poet must sing, and the sculptor think in bronze, and the painter make the world a mirror for his moods, as surely and as certainly as the hawthorn must blossom in spring, and the corn turn to gold at the harvest-time, and the moon in her ordered wanderings change from shield to sickle, and from sickle to shield.

We don't grow older we grow riper.

It takes a long time to grow young.

But by the time we're in our thirties, I believe we should strive to own and respect who we are, regardless of our struggles and difficulties. After all, even every little and big mistake, like every scar, can be a lesson in humility—one of the greatest gifts of all.

Alanis Morissette: "You live, you learn. You love, you learn. You cry, you learn. You lose, you learn." I think there's something pretty comforting in knowing that even the biggest mistakes I'm inevitably going to make will turn me into who I'll be at thirty.

You can't change your past, but you can change your mind about your past.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.