Quotes about Reflection
When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.
— Alphonsus Liguori
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
— Andrew Carnegie
It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
— William Golding
Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.
— Bruce Lee
I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.
— Christina Ricci
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
— Bob Goff
Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.
— Stephen Jay Gould
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
— Thomas Merton
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.
— Ronald Reagan
Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.
— John Updike
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
— Walt Whitman