Quotes about Reflection

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.

My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

Could it be that we allow the conditions in our lives to distract us from the meaning of our lives?

Our greatest power doesn't always emerge from our experiences, not even from our most intense ones. There's incredible hidden treasure locked up in your instincts that may not always show on your résumé. If you can spend some time with yourself, you may be on the verge of the most powerful part of your life, discovering what's inside that your instincts want to express outside. Think about what you gravitate toward when given time to relax and recharge.