Quotes about Reflection
It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
— Evelyn Underhill
Prayer, then, begins by an intellectual adjustment.
— Evelyn Underhill
All artist of some measure contemplative.
— Evelyn Underhill
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
— Ezra Taft Benson
One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?
— Ezra Taft Benson
All through my life the counsel to depend on prayer has been prized above almost any other advice I have ever received. It has become an integral part of me, an anchor, a constant source of strength and the basis of my knowledge of things divine.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The Lord said, 'Look unto me in every thought' (D&C 6:36). Looking unto the Lord every thought is the only possible way we can be the manner of men and women we ought to be
— Ezra Taft Benson
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbour's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
— F Scott Fitzgerald