Quotes about Reflection

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.