Quotes about Reflection
Care for your body as needed, but put your main energies and efforts into cultivating your mind.
— Epictetus
But what says Socrates?—One man finds pleasure in improving his land, another his horses. My pleasure lies in seeing that I myself grow better day by day.
— Epictetus
The soul is like a bowl of water, with the soul's impressions like the rays of light that strike the water. Now, if the water is disturbed, the light appears to be disturbed together with it — though of course it is not.
— Epictetus
Continually remind yourself that you are a mortal being, and someday will die.
— Epictetus
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
— Erica Jong
You know, when you get old, you see that everything is a joke. All the things you were passionate about don't mean a thing. You only did them to keep busy.
— Erica Jong
I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
— Amy Grant
If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
— Amy Grant
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
— Amy Grant
I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.
— Amy Grant
Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.
— Amy Grant
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
— Andrew Carnegie