Quotes about Reflection

Life would be dull if we hadn't a few tragedies to look back on.

if I wasn't ME who'd I be?

What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are.

I think, said Jane decidedly, that I should apologise to God.

Whenever he got stuck for an idea, he would bang the Bible and shout very bitterly, 'Curse ye Meroz.' Poor Meroz got thoroughly cursed that day, whoever he was, Mrs. Dr. dear, said Susan.

She was still haunted by the ghost of the cake she had drowned.

Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.

Nobody moves toward real Christlikeness without humility. Humility is not a bad self-image or a nonassertive personality. Humility is an eager willingness to see where you are wrong in order to experience the power of God that has already made you fit for His presence.

I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volume—and no farther than to my first day's life—'tis demonstrative that I have three hundred and sixty-four days more life to write just now, than when I first set out; so that instead of advancing, as a common writer, in my work with what I have been doing at it—on the contrary, I am just thrown so many volumes back—

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.