Quotes about Reflection

If it had grown up, 'she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only know the right way to change them -

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.

I ca'n't remember things before they happen.' 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.

I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: *was* I the same when I got up this morning?

Ever drifting down the stream ? Lingering in the golden gleam ? Life, what is it but a dream?

Everything's got a moral if only you can find it.

It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

Our first response when angered should be to turn away momentarily, mentally or physically, so we can separate the offense from the offender.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.