Quotes about Reflection

A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.

As the husband is, the wife is.

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

You have to turn the lemons life gives you into lemonade, and you have to take time to sit back and enjoy it.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

I've always been frightened of turning thirty.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.