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Reflection Quotes
"So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!"
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"I've been in the Wilds for a month and a half now, and in that time I've almost forgotten about the fences. It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast."
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"Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."
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"You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind."
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"The problem was I always took the blame. But he was wrong. But I thought me taking the blame could fix it."
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"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him."
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"If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps..."
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"The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember."
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"Never wish for someone else's life because you never know if they also wish yours was theirs."
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"The misery of sleep is beyond the understanding of men."
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"One truth discovered one pang of regret at not being able to express it is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world."
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"Vengeance is primitive, which is why only two species in the universe practice it: humans and animals."
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"Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station."
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"Practicing reflection daily ensures a healthy and invigorating lifestyle for both your mind and body. Your thoughts will be the key to your success."
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"From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?"
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"It's hard to find time to think about Kansas."
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"In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world."
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"Our mistakes would not wish for anything more, if we could just stop giving birth to them."
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"I can see myself before myself-A being through dark scenery."
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"Think of your personal and professional life-are you attracting what you want? Are you attracting the kind of people you like? Do you feel that life is working for you or against you? How have others been treating you? Are you pleased with your results?"
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"She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued."
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"My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots."
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"It may not be important how much you have, but it is important who you are in your heart."
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"Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism."
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"It is the honey which makes us cruel enough to ignore the death of a bee."
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"Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly."
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"In the place of solitude, you are able to take advantage of time and bring forth children in the form of products."
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"When you really realize how you have lived your life, you indeed realize how you must live your life. It is mostly they that have least time to ponder always who always find time to wonder."
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"One of the rocks in my soulbag, a little grey rock that I had picked up on a certain day in a certain place in the hills above the river in the Silver Time, a little piece of my world, that became my world. Every night I took it out and held it in my hand while I lay in bed waiting to sleep, thinking of the sunlight on the hills above the river, listening to the soft shushing of the ship's systems, like a mechanical sea."
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"Today's pain is yesterdays latent gain we did not take."
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"At times, look back towards your ancient days, drink deep from the eternal fountain of wisdom long gone, and then look ahead."
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"There are always certain things which are certain and certain things which are uncertain for us to think about each day and when such are over, there shall always be something to think about."
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"In the overwhelming demands of daily life, you get bombarded with continuous distractions, expectations and responsibilities. Is it no wonder that you may lose touch with simple pleasures and life lessons which you once knew, but have since forgotten? What do you need to be reminded of to live your life with purpose and passion?"
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"Don't mourn over the past; it has no pity for you. Don't cry over the present; it has no sympathy for you; and don't weep over the future, it has no mercy on you."
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"Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?"
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"The truth is that everyday and everyone is different. We just like to think that they aren't."
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"It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course."
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"In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?"
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"My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse."
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"Wasting time is when seconds, minutes and hours are passing without being converted."
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"You know because you've been it, and I know because I'm dead and it gives one such a wonderfully uncluttered perspective."
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"If you don't want to regret your life later, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life. Measure your life by the products and by the results you produce!"
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"Uncanny situations, reasons to ponder for action!"
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"We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence."
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"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."
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"The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour."
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"I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism."
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"Fat Charlie went back to his hotel room, the colour of underwater, where his lime sat, like a small green Buddha, on the countertop."You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could."
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"Whatever you went through in past equipped you for today. What you experience now prepares you for the future."
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