Quotes about Reflection

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.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

The student is to read history actively not passively.

A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will come out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping, we are becoming.

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.