Compelled Quote by Emily Bronte

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.

— Emily Bronte

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

— Kobe Bryant

“Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I am confounded…

— David Hume

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have…

— Theophile Gautier

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

— Grenville Kleiser

You should be reflective of the world you live in.

— Joan Smalls

“The act of gaining true insights from self - reflection is a futile action for most ... as there are easy way out things…

— Anubhav Mishra

When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons…

— Alexander Hamilton

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

— Jean Rostand

When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

— Bill Crawford

True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty