Alan Lightman Quotes, Believe Quotes, Reflection Quotes

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

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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.

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What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the prognosis. Who is the doctor? The mind of the patient.

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Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

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No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Memorable Quotes , Reflection Quotes

I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.

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They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

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If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Wind Quotes

REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Views Quotes

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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Journalism is very much public writing, writing with an audience in mind, writing for publication, and frequently writing quickly. And I know that when I worked daily journalism it really affected my patience with literature, which I think requires reflection, and a different kind of engagement.

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Tags : Achy Obejas Quotes , Writing Quotes , Reflection Quotes

This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Mean Quotes , Reflection Quotes

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

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We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Reflection Quotes

The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

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