Quotes about Reflection

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Think higher, feel deeper.

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Dumbledore asks Snape not to wake Harry: "Let him sleep. For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let him swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

And yet we spend so much time and effort and energy on those résumé entries—entries that lose all significance as soon as our heart stops beating.

Taoist philosophy, "Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

I can change nearly everything about myself. I can run from my children and trade in my spouse, move to another country and raise green rabbits for a living, but unless I care for my soul, I will not have changed who I am.

To really find God is to search for him not only in ourselves, not only in our loved ones, not only in our neighbors, not only in the strangers that we encounter, but ultimately in our enemies as well.

being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us—including ourselves.

Like dropping through a hole in everything that the world said was important….Like discovering that nothing else mattered and all I needed was now….Temporarily removed from the game….Like floating weightless on the Dead Sea and looking up at an empty sky.

Essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton describes art as "an apothecary for the soul.

When we shrink our whole reality down to pending projects, when our life becomes our endless to-do list, it's difficult to put them aside each night and let ourselves fall asleep and connect with something deeper.