71 quotes
“Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.”
— Walter Savage Landor
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“Whatever affliction may visit you is for what your own hands have earned; and for many He grants forgiveness.”
— Unknown
“The only journey is the one within.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself and healing changes those beliefs”
— Iyanla Vanzant
“A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.”
— Babylonian Talmud
“Once you fall into a reflective life you discover how little you need”
— Virginia Woolf
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.”
— Confucius
“Solitude is the place of purification.”
— Martin Luther
“The world is yourself pushed out.”
— Neville Goddard
“The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space free from the outside pressures.”
— Marya Mannes
“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”
— George Santayana
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect”
— Mark Twain
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
— Charles Dickens
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it”
— Ernest Holmes
“A room without books is like a body without a soul and solitude without reflection is mere emptiness”
— Cicero
“Today's regret can become tomorrow's resolution.”
— Anonymous
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?”
— William Arthur Ward
“Only when you are honest with yourself will the path become clear.”
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Both paths lead to peace.”
— Edith Wharton
“The best mirror is an old friend”
— George Herbert
“The present life of man upon earth, O king, seems to me like the swift flight of a sparrow through a banqueting hall in winter.”
— Bede
“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray
“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have learned to let go”
— Jack Kornfield
“I believe that architecture today needs to reflect on the tasks and possibilities which are inherently its own”
— Peter Zumthor
“We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.”
— John Dewey
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice, and nothing which we stand in so much need of as time.”
— Joseph Addison
“It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
— Henry David Thoreau
“In the quiet hours of reflection we find the truest version of ourselves”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Pain plus reflection equals progress”
— Ray Dalio
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Pain plus reflection equals progress.”
“We write to taste life twice in the moment and in retrospect”
— Anais Nin
“I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; but I never have yet felt a tinge of regret for being a little too kind.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge. It is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
— John Locke
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
— Zhu Xi
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday.”
“There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”
“When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
— Joyce Brothers
“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessings previously secured.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has plenty not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.”
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”
— Lao Tzu
“The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.”
“When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”
“The sun shines down and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water”
— Mata Amritanandamayi
“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone”
— Blaise Pascal
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect. True peace often walks a different path.”
“The world out there is a reflection of who you are inside”
— Deepak Chopra
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Beauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyes”
— Sophia Loren
“If you are willing to look at another persons behavior toward you as a reflection of their relationship with themselves you will find peace.”
— Yogi Bhajan
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first by reflection, which is noblest; second by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Acknowledge the beauty within you and it will be reflected in everything you see”
— Eckhart Tolle
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