Quotes about Reflection
The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no expectation that any man will read history aright, who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a person is constantly reading and absorbing the thoughts of others, their growth will be stunted. In order to fully develop, we need periods of solitude, self-inquiry, and recovery.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lose yourself in nature and find peace.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.
— Randy Alcorn