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“There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.”

“We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.”

Running Suffering Truth Is Illusion Reflection Rate Faster Exceed Velocity

Author:Sam Keen

“The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.”

Men Writing Book Self Problem Running Reflection Red Breaths Critical Bus Examination Self-examination

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”

Soul Running Literature Reflection Ruins

Book:Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job

Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job

“Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”

Stills Running Water Masters Reflection Zen Master Running Water Still Waters

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale. So many things have been shown so to me on these banks, so much light has illumined me by reflection here where the water comes down, that I can hardly believe that this grace never flags, that the pouring from ever-renewable sources is endless, impartial, and free.”

Knows Believe Has Beens I Can Book Light Care Running Night Wish Water Grace Minutes Source Reflection Endless Tales Mysticism Flags Shelves All Night Pouring Creeks Happy Thoughts

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person”

Thinking Mind Persons Long Ideas Running Reading Interesting Reflection Impression Long Runs

Book:You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Source: You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.”

Giving Mind Running Romance Flower Reflection Seeds Fragrance Revelry

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.”