Reflection Quotes

Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons of white jade soar and freeze the whole sky with snow. When a summer sun heats the globe rivers flood and men turn into fish and turtles. Who can judge a thousand years of accomplishments or failures?

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Retire me to my Milan, whereEvery third thought shall be my grave.

The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?

Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,And marching single in an endless file,Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;To each they offer gifts after his will,Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;I, in my pleached garden watched the pompForgot my morning wishes, hastilyTook a few herbs and apples, and the DayTurned and departed silent. I too lateUnder her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

I wouldn't like me, if I had to be around me.

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?

It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

I've been a prima-dona. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men - in the street and off.

To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

Things are solved by walking around.

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

I have had a great time as president.

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets.

I never look back and think too much about my films. I've done some work I've been proud of over the years but which of them is my favourite I really don't know. I could say the last one. I've had little jumps in my career like Unforgiven possibly.

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.

Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

To Time it never seems that he is braveTo set himself against the peaks of snowTo lay them level with the running wave,Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,But only grave, contemplative and grave.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.