Self-reflection is the gateway to freedom. It also brings greater appreciation and enjoyment. We begin to enjoy spending time with our own… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping—its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“He is astonished at the fact of his being, and this astonishment leads to reflection: as he leans over the river of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“it is when thus relieved from the state of tension belonging to actual study that boys and girls, as well as men… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“They say you start weaving clearer, sharper memories after you've been to a place at least twice. Because then the reflection is… — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
“In life, there are as many critical stages as there are stars, most of the time we cannot see them. They are… — RJ Blizzard Copy Share Image
Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Beauty is primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterance… — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“I stared at the reflection in the mirror, trying to recognize the person looking back at me. It had been weeks since… — Dr. Erlange Elisme Copy Share Image
“The rhythm of my words is the truest measure of my personal reflection. To the most over educated eye, my approach will… — Eri Nelson Copy Share Image
“Even now one is ashamed of resting, and prolonged reflection almost gives people a bad conscience One thinks with a watch in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Developing a sense of contentment means entering into rituals of reflection and celebration of the various stages of our lives. If life… — Darrin Patrick Copy Share Image
All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“In life, we must choose to quiet ourselves and go through a period of reflection, an instance in time for evaluating our… — D. Allen Miller Copy Share Image
“What had once been life’s quiet moments of solitary reflection—a few minutes alone on a bus, or walking to work, or waiting… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may… — Alice James Copy Share Image
“And that was is. Life sometimes flips on you like that. One minute you're looking at your reflection in the water, not… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
As what you first are moves in the context of form, you have real reflection within that form, real reflection of what… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You are not the one who experiences liberation; you are the clearing, the opening, the emptiness, in which any experience comes and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“a truer accounting of ourselves must always include a reflection on our strongest and our weakest traits, our mediocrity and our brilliance,… — Michael Cornwall Copy Share Image
Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process, that is by the completion of… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“These three ingredients—focusing on conscious access, manipulating conscious perception, and carefully recording introspection—have transformed the study of consciousness into a normal experimental… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“Reflection is and remains the hardest creditor in existence; hitherto it has cunningly bought up all the possible views of life, but… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Information is key to raising awareness of what our brain withholds from our conscious mind. Unfortunately we are hardwired emotion-driven thinkers. It… — David Bloor Copy Share Image
In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
