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Reflection Quotes
"And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world."
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"When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply understand the choices that were taken, the roads that were walked, and that there are no guarantees to an unseen future."
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"The look on his face made me want to die. It confirmed every mean and low thing I'd ever thought about myself, the stuff you hope and pray no one will ever know about you. Because if they knew, they would see the real you, and they would despise you."
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"After you have done a great thing for a great glory, sit and think and understand the journey thereon, for a little mistake can erase a great glory!"
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"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid."
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"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."
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"Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be."
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"But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods."
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"Achievement: The death of an endeavor and the birth of disgust."
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"We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away."
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"Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts."
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"Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?"
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"I used to sit in front of my father's Jag, watching the raindrops run their kamikaze suicide missions from one edge of the windshield to the wiper blade."
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"We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us."
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"When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when the moment, which "was", no longer "is and when only silence remains, loads of questions arise. We can cry a river or we may wonder: "What went wrong?"
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"Unfortunately, people seldom think about the purpose they were uniquely designed to fulfil and don't ask question of who they are or what their identity is."
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"Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good."
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"They didn't speak as the sun slowly sank before them. Why was it most colorful when it was about to vanish for the night? Was it angry at being forced belong the horizon? Or was it a showman, giving a performance before retiring?Why was the most colorful part of people's bodies-the brightness of their blood-hidden beneath the skin, never to be seen unless something went wrong?"
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"One day I woke up and realized no amount of love, care, pain, hurt, anger, or retribution could ever transform those who are evil into good or kind people. That day I let go; I stopped caring for them, gave up any hope for their souls, and knew they were never worthy of me or my time."
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"The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. ['Into a new life']"
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"Retrospect: the sweetener of life."
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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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"Two great questions exist in each day; 'what must I do excellently today?' for morning and 'what did I do wrong or right today?' for evening. When we fail to know the real reasons why we wake up each day and why we retire at night, we fail to know the real reasons why we live."
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"These rocks are too heavy, can't carry them any more,don't know why i ever picked them up before,going to have to put them down where they don't belong,'cause i can't get them back to where they came from.These rocks belong to no one, except history.Somewhere between the desert and the rolling sea,or maybe up in the mountains blue and tall,I picked them but now i'm going to let them fall."
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"Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water."
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"I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from."
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"For it is just this question of pain that partsus. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your ownpains drive you; so long as pain underlies your propositions aboutsin,-so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurelywhat an animal feels."
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"Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead."
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"Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable."
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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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"I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River."
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"The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person."
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"Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round."
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"We must make time to reflect on life. Someday this life will be gone."
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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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"You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching movies and making unnecessary phone calls your life is diminishing into vanity."
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"Too late... everything's always too late."
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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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"Do not just go through the day without pausing to ponder! You shall only retire wondering."
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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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"We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence."
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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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"If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults."
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"The price you will offer yourself to the world, is how much they will buy you."
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"I was up all night just to talk to myself about you."
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"The thoughts of the morning becomes the blessing for the day."
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"It is life near the bone where it is sweetest."
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"You have only one life, don't waste your life, fulfilling others dream."
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"Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?"
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