Quotes about Reflection

In some causes silence is dangerous.

What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.

When I got to know that I will be doing 'Dilwale,' I was numb. I called my mother and told her, and there was a two-minute silence.

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

It's okay to be an introvert, to seek out the quiet corners at a cocktail party, to care about quality, to have your mood be affected by your surroundings.

Faced with our imminent extinction, Tom Laughlin believes, all assumptions are called into question.

Maybe it's less threatening to believe that our beloved spouse is worthy to live out his or her unlived life, while we are not.

The moment a person learns he's got terminal cancer, a profound shift takes place in his psyche. At one stroke in the doctor's office he becomes aware of what really matters to him. Things that sixty seconds earlier had seemed all- important suddenly appear meaningless, while people and concerns that he had till then dismissed at once take on supreme importance.

The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of my life?