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Reflection Quotes
"I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!"
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"While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly."
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"Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places."
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"Would you love money more than man?"
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"Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified, and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones."
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"If you give into your emotional illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow familiar and comfortable with the very place you shouldn't be in."
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"Is it the sea you hear in me,Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?"
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"When distress comes your way, pause and ponder."
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"Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."
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"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time, but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet."
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"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."
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"Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark."
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"Is there anything to lose in life? No. The only lost in life is death."
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"Life demands death. Life demands death to ego - A state when we only think and care about ourselves."
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"Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy."
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"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream."
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"Fill the pages of your life with the exciting story of triumph and tragedy, failure and victory, desire and discovery."
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"Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived."
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"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
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"Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow."
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"Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place, maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was."
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"Past glories are poor feeding."
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"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."
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"Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived."
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"Loneliness isn't a disease, it is only a moment to learn something better."
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"It was a puzzle, a dark and lonely one, and if I were a piece in this puzzle, I did not know where it belonged. I needed to put myself aside, just for a little while, until I saw where I might fit in."
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"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."
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"On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream."
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"At last she sighed."But the most wretched thing - is it not? - is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice."
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"We have to be extremely careful in the manner which we live life."
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"Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret."
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"To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect."
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"To be filled with bliss and harmony on earth is a reflection of heaven order."
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"We are fools in the stream of time, in moments of calm, we will laugh about ourselves."
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"Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance."
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"Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand."
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"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."
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"Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation."
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"The humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show them how we feel."
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"Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him."
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"Find solitude and discover ways to add value to yourself."
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"Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small."
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"Gansey clucked at his bedraggled reflection in the dark-framed mirror hanging in the front hallway. Chainsaw eyed herself briefly before hiding on the other side of Ronan's neck; Adam did the same, but without the hiding-in-Ronan's-neck bit. Even Blue looked less fanciful that usual, the lighting rendering her lampshade dress and spiky hair as a melancholy Pierrot."
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"By the river of forgetfulness, I found honesty."
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"Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable..."
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"The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!"
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"The terrible thing is that it's impossible to tear the past out by the roots."
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"Whoever doubt, hardens his own heart."
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"Will it ultimately reach the clear surface of my consciousness, this memory, this old, dead moment which the magnetism of an identical moment has travelled so far to importune, to disturb, to raise up out of the very depths of my being? I cannot tell. Now that I feel nothing, it has stopped, has perhaps gone down again into its darkness, from which who can say whether it will ever rise?"
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"We can only live life when we understand life."
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