Quotes about Reflection
It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully ) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.
— Alain de Botton
There is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.
— Alain de Botton
Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.
— Alain de Botton
Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.
— Alain de Botton
If we accord importance to the kind of portraits which surround us, it is because we fashion our lives according to their example, accepting aspects of ourselves if they concur with what others mention of themselves.
— Alain de Botton
What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame.
— Alain de Botton
Remember, when you're reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you." It is a two-way transaction.
— Derek Prince
Having looked the beast of the past in the eye, having asked and received forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
— Desmond Tutu
I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
— Desmond Tutu
We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
— Desmond Tutu
How does a blind man say he was wrong? I thought you were lost, but you were never lost to God.
— DiAnn Mills
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer