Life is governed by a multitude of forces. It would be smooth sailing if one could determine the course of one's actions only by one general principle whose application at a given moment was too obvious to need even a moment's reflection. But I cannot recall a single act which could be so easily determined. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: life actions reflection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. —Jerzy Kosiński More about this quote Tags: art reflection pause bypass Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When they don't love you the way you want to, you mourn that for however long you need to. But then you get back up and you remind yourself. You are not a reflection of the people who can't love you. You will love again. You will be loved again. —Caitlyn Siehl More about this quote Tags: love memory mourning reflection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message: "You must change your life. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Tags: life religion change myth mystery art reason consciousness reflection inquiry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's weird. I never knew how much I had to hate about myself until I had the time to think about it. —Jason Myers in Exit Here More about this quote Tags: self-hatred thought reflection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. —Sophocles More about this quote Tags: decisions reflection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: others character reflection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward. —John Corey Whaley in Noggin More about this quote Tags: past thinking nostalgia reflection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email