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Reflection Quotes
"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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"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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"I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge."
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"The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves."
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"How is it that hearts hold on to memories with the strength of hope and possibilities."
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"Focus on patience, loyalty, intelligence, greed, dissatisfaction and pride."
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"You must begin to live your life by doing a comparative analysis between any two events in your life and making sure you are only investing your time into that event which adds more value to your life."
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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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"The difference in the quality of life between people can be found in the quality of the questions they ask themselves."
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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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"Silence is the most expensive to buy."
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"Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows."
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"While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly."
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"Whilst you are a youth, think about the aged; whilst you are an aged, think about the youth."
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"Complain and remain. Praise and be raised."
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"Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow."
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"When the drum beat comes to an end, you shall not hear the drum beat again, but you shall remember how it sounded, and you shall understand clearly how you should or should not have danced to the drum beat."
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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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"Each new day, our minds grow older; the mediocre, bitter or better daily lesson that makes our minds grow older is the matter!"
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"The most expensive jewels are not found around our necks, but in our hearts."
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"Loneliness isn't a disease, it is only a moment to learn something better."
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"In my silence do I enhance my talents."
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"Do not let the day end without you asking yourself one great question. So many things do question our thoughts. Questions of all forms and from all spheres of life do bother us. Sometimes, questions are the best answers to questions. When you ponder over a question, ask another question which will questing the question. Mostly, the best answers to questions are the best questions. Questions that questing the questions rightly give the right answers. Remember, never a day without a great question!"
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"Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited."
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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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"Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention."
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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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"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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"In that one moment, I wrapped a thousand others. A lifetime of joy, sorrow, laughter, frowns, smiles, tears... life!"
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"The terrible thing is that it's impossible to tear the past out by the roots."
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"Do we reflect on life? Someday this life will be gone."
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"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects."
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"Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia."
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"To see the farm is to leave it."
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"You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn't date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No."
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"You cannot carry your past without dropping your future."
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"As a matter of fact, people erroneously think that life is about spending."
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"Let go of rejections and focus on self-reflection. For it is within that you will find the light you seek."
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"He often came back 'all thinky' from work."
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"And a man without memories is just a shell."
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"Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death."
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"You are in your own prison."
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"We ourselves, will resurrect the memory in order to savor it and carry it forth into the world. We will fling it at one another for laughs. Distort it. We will toss the story into the air at parties and howl over its ripeness. Degraded as it was, we will degrade it further. Make it more swollen. We shall render it impossibly awful, making of it the mythology of ourselves. A comfort. Proof of the trials we've survived."
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"Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them."
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"Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today."
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"It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia."
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"What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?"
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"If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden."
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