Quotes about Reflection

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

The only time you should look back in life, is to see how far you have come.

To discover a flaw in our makeup is a chance to get rid of it, and add a new line of beauty to our life.

For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.