Quotes about Reflection
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
— George Eliot
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you've really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.
— George Lucas
I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.
— George W. Bush
I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.
— George Washington
In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.
— Gloria Gaither
Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.
— Gloria Steinem
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
— Heinrich Heine
There's only one story, the story of your life.
— Helen Keller
I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.
— Henri Nouwen
Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.
— Henri Nouwen
There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.
— Henri Nouwen
Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.
— Henri Nouwen