Quotes about Reflection

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.

After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.