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Reflection Quotes
"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."
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"If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?"
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"What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter."
25
"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure."
19
"If you try to forget it, nothing can erase a memory."
14
"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
12
"Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one."
11
"Every man wants to be appreciated, so do not just commend your secretary, commend your wife at home tooThe world judges people by money and status in the society, educational achievements, even racial background, this is unfortunate."
11
"Don't just remain that accidental product."
11
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
10
"There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong."
10
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
9
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Our young people look for quick answers and solutions."
9
"It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures standing with their backs against the window appear against the branches of a spreading tree. With a shock of emotion one feels 'There are figures without features robed in beauty'. In the pause that follows while the ripples spread, the girl to whom one should be talking says to herself, 'He is old'. But she is wrong. It is not age; it is that a drop has fallen; another drop. Time has given the arrangement another shake. Out we creep from the arch of the currant leaves, out into a wider world. The true order of things - this is our perpetual illusion - is now apparent. Thus in a moment, in a drawing-room, our life adjusts itself to the majestic march of day across the sky."
9
"It made a big difference in my life to grow up with a dad who wasn't afraid of how great my mom was."
8
"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."
8
"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please."
8
"To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force."
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"Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there."
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"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
7
"You can listen to the secrets of lifein the silence of night,in the voice of the ocean,in the beating of your heart.Just listen with your soul."
7
"When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise."
7
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'."
7
"Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine."
7
"He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality,known or not."
7
"There comes a time in one's life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have."
7
"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"
6
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
6
"I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away."
6
"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."
6
"Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And for a long time afterward, he would have reason to recall those smiles and reflect upon the goodwill that inspired them — for it had the power to protect, to confer honor, and to strengthen resolve. It had the power to hear men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted."
6
"That's all I cared about too, was getting it right."
6
"And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content."
6
"He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire."
6
"I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real."
6
"It is not the mountain that is our problem but the absence of knowledge on how to deal withthe mountain."
6
"I was with book, as a woman is with child."
5
"It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit."
5
"People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot."
5
"In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone."
5
"If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing."
5
"Instead of a book, what if we're actually writing (or not writing) in the margins of our lives? What if our lives are books? What is the sign of our presence? Are we pressing into the margins our interpretations and questions? Are we circling offending verbs and drawing furious arrows to the margin where we scrawl "irony," "frustration," "voiceless," "unfair!" Or do we simply turn the pages, passively receiving what's given, furiously disagreeing but remaining silent about it?"
5
"There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people."
5
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
5
"Today is a brand new beginning for me!"
5
"We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has."
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"Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly."
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"Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds."
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