Robert L. Rosen quotes

“Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.”
-- Robert L. Rosen

#Humility Quotes #Thinking About You Quotes #Reflection Quotes

“Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.”

Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”

“Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.”

“How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings of sympathy from other people instead of skepticism (“You can’t really be feeling as bad as all that”) and in some cases outright hostility (“Maybe if you stopped thinking about yourself so much ”).”

“Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.”

“No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.”

Source : Helen Fielding (2009). “Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”

“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”

“All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.”

“Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.”

“TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.”

Source : "Alan Arkin: Random Advice from an Older Gentleman" by Alan Arkin, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2013.