Quotes about Reflection

Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.

He (God) remembers that we are but shadows and dust, therefore what we do in this life echoes in eternity.

He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.

No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man—yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.