Max Muller Quotes

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

Planning and reminiscing can be a good thing... in moderation.

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this?

In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

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

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.