Quotes about Reflection

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

I can change nearly everything about myself. I can run from my children and trade in my spouse, move to another country and raise green rabbits for a living, but unless I care for my soul, I will not have changed who I am.

To really find God is to search for him not only in ourselves, not only in our loved ones, not only in our neighbors, not only in the strangers that we encounter, but ultimately in our enemies as well.

being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us—including ourselves.

Like dropping through a hole in everything that the world said was important….Like discovering that nothing else mattered and all I needed was now….Temporarily removed from the game….Like floating weightless on the Dead Sea and looking up at an empty sky.

Essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton describes art as "an apothecary for the soul.

When we shrink our whole reality down to pending projects, when our life becomes our endless to-do list, it's difficult to put them aside each night and let ourselves fall asleep and connect with something deeper.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

A man married to the right woman will be happy. A man married to the wrong woman will be a philosopher.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

The soul never thinks without a picture.