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Reflection Quotes
"If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?"
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"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."
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"What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter."
35
"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure."
28
"Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory... Everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion - it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from."
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"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
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"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please."
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"If you try to forget it, nothing can erase a memory."
19
"Don't just remain that accidental product."
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"There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong."
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
18
"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."
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"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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"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."
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"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
15
"In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere."
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"Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one."
14
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."
14
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
14
"I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies."
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"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."
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"It made a big difference in my life to grow up with a dad who wasn't afraid of how great my mom was."
13
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
13
"Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine."
13
"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."
13
"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."
13
"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."
13
"What you do now will be in the past right after you do it."
13
"Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects."
12
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Our young people look for quick answers and solutions."
12
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'."
12
"I learn my world through writing."
12
"The word "lost" comes from the Old Norse "los," meaning the disbanding of an army, and this origin suggests soldiers falling out of formation to go home, a truce with the wide world. I worry now that many people never disband their armies, never go beyond what they know."
12
"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."
12
"To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force."
12
"I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow."
12
"The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward."
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"It is not the mountain that is our problem but the absence of knowledge on how to deal withthe mountain."
12
"I was with book, as a woman is with child."
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"I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from."
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"When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise."
11
"I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one."
11
"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."
11
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
11
"Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference."
11
"Today is a brand new beginning for me!"
11
"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."
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"I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years."
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"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."
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