Thoughtful Reflection Quotes

#1. Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

Mario Cuomo

#2. It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.

Yi-Fu Tuan

#3. Is Wisdom derived from the accumulation of one's experiences, or rather one's thoughtful reflection upon what he has learned throughout the process?

Christopher Earle

#4. 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

#5. Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.

Nouman Ali Khan

#6. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

Wendy O. Williams

#7. I do not mean you would be a failure, only that it is to be expected that you will not succeed every time, it is not possible. It is not even advisable - for how would you ever learn? It is necessary to fail. You must expect, even joyfully embrace, failing.

Willow Danes

#8. It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

Britta Phillips

#9. The heart doesn't know it's expanding with compassion anymore than a hawk spreading its swings knows it's being a hawk. Nor does someone acting out of love often realize they are being kind.

Mark Nepo

#10. I like being surrounded by great people.

Paul Walker

#11. It's strange how money seems to silence a neighborhood," I say quietly. "On my street, where no one has money, it's so loud. Sirens blaring, people shouting, car doors slamming, stereos thumping. There's always someone, somewhere, making noise.

Colleen Hoover

#12. But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it.

Marisa Silver

#13. As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, thoughtful pieces on the future of fandom.

Gregory Benford

#14. Unless you are silent, you will not
know your urgent heart, how it beats
between the thin skin of yes and no.

Drew Myron

#15. Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us?
Brought peace!

Graham Chapman

#16. My faith is the reason I run - it calms my heart and makes everything feel like a lift. My speed is definitely a gift from Him, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, He allows me to do it.

Allyson Felix

#17. Confidence comes from thoughtful action, reflection, and experience. Confidence does not come from reaction.

Debasish Mridha

#18. When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come

Leonardo Da Vinci

#19. You have long since known that safe is a film skin thing

Klara Piechocki

#20. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

Tony Blair

#22. A writer needs solitude : moments that he can spend in introspection and in reflection. These moments make him pensive and thoughtful and help him write his thoughts with clarity. A life of devotion to one's passion gives us meaning to our life.

Avijeet Das

#23. It would have been nice to have had unicorns.

Tom Stoppard

#24. Go a little easy on the people around you. Try to reel in judging thoughts. Think before you speak.

John Manning

#25. The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Lee Iacocca

#26. As you awake from dreams may you find this one the wondrous one to awaken to.

Tom Althouse

#27. Thoughts are the shorebirds scurrying back and forth just beyond the edge of oncoming wave.

Tom Gillaspy

#28. She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.

Adi Alsaid

#29. The house in the story is based on my friend Tori's house in Kinsale, Ireland, which is obviously not actually haunted, and the sound of people upstairs moving wardrobes around when you are downstairs there and alone is probably just something that old houses do when they think they are unobserved.

Neil Gaiman

#30. The shoreline of my thoughts disappeared as I drifted upon an open ocean of reflection.

Mike Ericksen

#31. What was the first thing a man must do before he can be a man? He must be born. He must leave the womb; and once left, it could not be re-entered.

Isaac Asimov

#32. Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

Elizabeth McCracken

#33. You're defined by how you play the game, not by the game itself.

Chuck Pagano

#34. We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so darn good, you've got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too ... amazing records, amazing songs.

Mike Love

#35. Dreams are a luxury of the human condition.

Tom Althouse

#36. Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.

Lord Chesterfield

#37. In the bazaar of herbs and potions Don't wander aimlessly, Find the shop with a potion That is sweet.

Rumi

#38. She was a lover and a lewd cohabitator, a liar and a cherished friend, an aunt and a kindly grandmother, a champion of the fallen, and a late-in-coming fighter for reason over fear. Even in those final hours, quite and rocking, arriving and departing, she knew who she was.

Laura Moriarty