Quotes about Reflection

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.