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Reflection Quotes
"Top question of the dying: "What made me sick?"
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"Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!"
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"There exist continuation of time; past, present and future."
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"If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer."
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"Time passes so fast. Make time to be still."
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"From under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won't let go."
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"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made."
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"The more you live, the more today you see, the more yesterday's you left and the more tomorrow you say! Only those who have lived long can best tell the regrets of yesterday, the lessons in today and the real reasons to ponder before you say and think of tomorrow!"
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"By the time you become an expert at marriage, it is too late to start a new one."
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"Each of us should realize the importance of having a talk with our own soul."
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"There is always a zone where somebody is nobody, there is always a zone where somebody is somebody and there is always a zone where nobody is nobody."
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"Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!"
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"We walk alone in the wilderness."
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"If I simply look at the map that I've so tediously created, it will explain why I'm laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up."
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"Talk to the creator in a state of peace and solitude and ask Him a question concerning the purpose of your living."
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"There is vast sea of all kind of creatures."
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"Life is a story, until I awake and saw life as a dream."
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"There would be a time, when you will ask for nothing but life."
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"Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude."
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"If you have few months to live, what will you do?"
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"What you think of your self is more important than what others think of you."
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"Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic."
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"She could have wept. It was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad! She could have done it differently of course; the colour could have been thinned and faded; the shapes etherealised; that was how Paunceforte would have seen it. But then she did not see it like that. She saw the colour burning on a framework of steel; the light of a butterfly's wing lying upon the arches of a cathedral."
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"You have only one life, don't waste your life, fulfilling others dream."
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"I guess it's human nature to question yourself, to question why all the pain has had to happen? sometimes there isn't any answers it just is what it is and how we make ourselves feel and see through that, is what will determine how we move forward."
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"From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment."
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"Regrets never sit well, with those that never forget."
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"She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change."
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"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."
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"If somewhere deep within me arises some essenceof having been a child, one I never experienced,perhaps the purest childness of my childhood,I don't want to know it. Without even looking,I want to form an angel out of itand hurl him into the foremost rankof screaming angels, to remind God."
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"I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics."
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"For it is up to you and meto take solacein nostalgia's armsand our abilityto create the everlastingfrom fleeting moments."
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"I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge."
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"You don't have to be in hurry in life."
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"The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves."
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"We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world."
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"I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass."
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"I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all."
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"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye."
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"I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister, and I was introduced to every niece and sister-in-law in a hundred miles. In retrospect, I'm very grateful for whatever reluctance it was that kept me alone until your mother came. Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what I was waiting for."
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"It seemed at momemts, When I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the sea and some great secert was to be revealed."
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"Don't live to be judged for what you haven't done. Live to be judged for what you have done."
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"The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have."
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"Solitude allows you to be able to arrange your life only around your destiny."
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"Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?"
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"Disturbing encounters in life spur reflective thinking that jars a person from his or her exhausted ideologies and way of living. A person who lives passionately will develop a philosophic outlook because the road of excess leads to knowledge. Enthusiasm will frequently make a person look foolish, and result in intermittent periods of despondency and self-questioning, yet only exuberance and a degree of risk-taking leads us to wisdom."
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"I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing."
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"Words cant explain everything.But silence never fails to mean something."
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"One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right."
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"Capture the sacred-thoughts and write it a journal."
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