42 Quotes About Reflection On Life

There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by encountering the world, culling knowledge from all available resources, and thinking reverently about life. Kilroy J. Oldster

One of the salient facts of a self is that a person is constantly undergoing a series of actions in the immediacy of time that they must later reflect upon and synthesize new experiences, thoughts, feelings, and mental impression along with their latent memories into a collaborative sense of being. Kilroy J. Oldster

Though the fire and water tried to overtake me, I have come out to a place of great abundance. I know that the fires of refinement, although hard, dark, and difficult, brought me to a better and richer place in God. Robin Bertram

Your heart is the compass, Your soul is the journey... Andulairah

The purpose of life is to become acquainted with the deepest recesses of a person’s own mind by reflecting upon what a person reads, witnesses, and personally experiences. Wisdom is a form of power. Lacking knowledge of the world and without comprehending the essence of humanity, we can never know the truth of our own being. Kilroy J. Oldster

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist. Aberjhani

Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly. Abhijit Naskar

O Lord my God, revive my soul! Lailah Gifty Akita

Do we reflect on life? Someday this life will be gone. Lailah Gifty Akita

Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars. Tom Althouse

As in Plato’s myth of the cave, some of us don't stay long enough in one single place, relationship, journey or country but that does not mean we evade reality or makes us unstable. It simply means, we are not very keen to entertain ourselves, for long periods of time, with the same old same old reflections or shadows on the wall, when aware of the existence of the sun; the price for enlightenment, solitude . EfratCybulkiewicz

Silence leads us back to our purpose, and it ignites creativity and vision. Angela Lynne Craig

Your true friends echo your own philosophies back at you. J.R. Rim

Bankrupt"One midnight, deep in starlight still, I dreamed that I received this bill:(- - - - IN ACCOUNT WITH LIFE - - - -):Five thousand breathless dawns all new; Five thousand flowers fresh in dew; Five thousand sunsets wrapped in gold; One-million snow-flakes served ice-cold; Five quiet friends; one baby's love; One white-mad sea with clouds above; One hundred music-haunted dreams Of moon-drenched roads and hurrying streams; Of prophesying winds, and trees; Of silent stars and browsing bees; One June night in a fragrant wood; One heart that loved and understood. I wondered when I waked at day, How–how in God's name– I could pay! . Cortlandt W. Sayres

Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible. Jonathan Harnisch

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained. Unknown

Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life. Kilroy J. Oldster

I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself. Gerry Abbey

I wander cowboy sidewalks of wood, wearing a too-small hat, filled with remorse for the many lives I failed to lead. George Saunders

Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon what a person perceives. Essayistic writing is an osmotic process wherein a person intuitively absorbs information and ideas, allows inchoate thoughts to gestate in the unconscious mind, and then consciously places the emergent strands of language and logic into an orderly and expressive format. Kilroy J. Oldster

We must make time to reflect on life. Someday this life will be gone. Lailah Gifty Akita

It is within the boundaries of reflection we are able to become aware of insights that can lead us to understanding. Kat Lahr

Medicinal Spirit, Inside MirrorTherapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels, No one knows how to upscale another, for it has to come from the inside grails, Striking inflicts at the mirror and hatred to the being of creator, Causes hate in mirror too and abused flesh to the author, Changes come from its prudence and rationalism liberation, Not its pardon, A mirror is but a substance of a conscious, But identity says "let me fly" when journeying from the subconscious to the conscious. John Shelton Jones

I would think of certain winter nights when he wedged himself between Nona and me in bed, a furtive warmth embedded in his skin already tinctured with virginal earth and milk and possibility, or how that peculiar scent common to all small children before the age of five--sunshine sweetened hair, a nascent woodsiness in him exuding youthful exuberance--gripped us, suspended us eighties in the sense that our hope, our very survival, depended on the fulfillment of this child's dreams. How I took those years I spent for granted, believing them unalterable? pg. 9 . S.K. Kalsi

Universe is an empty mirror. World is just the reflection of your thoughts. Amit Ray

Genius is the ability to push one's limits beyond the limits each time, every endeavour. Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

We were made to be like this; filled with ashes and feels, burning down to what we dont want to be and what we dont want to see. sins? they are just a choice. Malaika Tanweer

He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds. Khaled Hosseini

In the morning After taking cold shower –-what a mistake–- I look at the mirror. There, a funny guy, Grey hair, white beard, wrinkled skin, –-what a pity–- Poor, dirty, old man, He is not me, absolutely not. Land and life Fishing in the ocean Sleeping in the desert with stars Building a shelter in the mountains Farming the ancient way Singing with coyotes Singing against nuclear war– I’ll never be tired of life. Now I’m seventeen years old, Very charming young man. I sit quietly in lotus position, Meditating, meditating for nothing. Suddenly a voice comes to me: “To stay young, To save the world, Break the mirror. Nanao Sakaki

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82 Unknown

Maybe every once in a while we can take a break from doing everything faster and quicker to reflect on who we are and where we are going. Joe Plumeri

Never be defined by what has happened to you in the past, it was just a life lesson, not a life sentence. ~ Donald Pillai Donald Pillai

The last thought on your mind before you sleep is like a mirror showing you the reflection of who you are! No matter what you pretend to be all-day long, that one last thought is enough to sum up your entire life. Mehek Bassi

...reflection can transform something familiar. Diane L. Dunton

Where have the years gone, Ruby Rose? Sometimes I have to stop and think about how old I am. When I wake up in the morning, before I move this tired old body or look in the blasted mirror, I swear I'm still a young man. It just feels like yesterday. I don't know how it's gone so fast. Lea Davey