Quotes about Reflection
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day." But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
— AA Milne
Goodbye..? Why can't we go back to page one and do it all over again?
— AA Milne
And Teddy worried lots about The fact that he was rather stout. He thought: "If only I were thin! But how does anyone begin?
— AA Milne
But, Eeyore," said Pooh, "was it a Joke, or an Accident? I mean--" "I didn't stop to ask, Pooh. Even at the very bottom of the river I didn't stop to say to myself, '*Is* this a Hearty Joke, or is it the Merest Accident?' I just floated to the surface, and said to myself, 'It's wet.' If you know what I mean.
— AA Milne
It's a very funny thought that, if Bears were Bees, They'd build their nests at the bottom of trees. And that being so (if the Bees were Bears), We shouldn't have to climb up all these stairs.
— AA Milne
Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
— AA Milne
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
— AW Tozer
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
— AW Tozer
The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel