Quotes about Reflection
I always learn a lot when I do so. You know, when you step out of your comfort zone and even your cynical zone, and open yourself up to what other people might experience and why they do so.
— Todd Haynes
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
— William James
My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.
— Thomas Merton
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
— Samuel Johnson
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.
— Anonymous
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
— Michelangelo
The fewer the words, the better prayer.
— Martin Luther
At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.
— Oscar Wilde
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.
— Anonymous
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson