Quotes about Reflection
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
— St. Augustine
The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad.
— Heinrich Heine
It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.
— Thomas a Kempis
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
— William Hazlitt
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
— Thomas a Kempis
We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.
— Mark Twain
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Could it be that we allow the conditions in our lives to distract us from the meaning of our lives?
— Bishop TD Jakes
Our greatest power doesn't always emerge from our experiences, not even from our most intense ones. There's incredible hidden treasure locked up in your instincts that may not always show on your résumé. If you can spend some time with yourself, you may be on the verge of the most powerful part of your life, discovering what's inside that your instincts want to express outside. Think about what you gravitate toward when given time to relax and recharge.
— Bishop TD Jakes
soul survivor," someone who's willing to open up and examine the pain in order to lance the wound and perforate the power of the past.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain!
— Bishop TD Jakes
A father is an image of a young man's destiny, a living testimony of what time may bring to pass.
— Bishop TD Jakes