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Reflection Quotes
"I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph."
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"The motionless person was once full of life in one moment in time. What a misery?"
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"Let's stop and start thinking."
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"Maybe I need to immerse the fabric of my soul in torrential nature of Christmas, and in doing so to finally understand that it is the very thing that can make the world what I so wish it were."
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"My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock."
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"Memories are what you no longer want to remember."
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"To worry is to wear yourself out."
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"Do you love to live or live to love?"
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"Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape..."
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"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
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"No matter how bright your future seems you can never forget about the past."
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"You use a glass mirror to see your face, you use works of art to see your soul."
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"Is it just me or am I the only person that didn't receive an invitation to the Grand Ball so many call life?"
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"You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?"
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"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good."
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"Is there any thinking animal like man?"
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"Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?"
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"Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past."
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"The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen."
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"Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of what history and experience has taught, they are criticized for it. They are told that because they have not experienced it, they cannot appreciate it, and thus never know it. However, at the same time, people want you to learn from past mistakes and past experiences, in order to make a better choice for yourself. So let me ask you, which is the hypocrite? Is it history or is it today?"
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"Time can be as fluid as water, and never in the way you'd like; it slows down to a standstill when you wish you could get things over with, and rushes by in a blur when you wish things would last."
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"Look at yourself on the day that you graduated from college, then look at yourself today. I did that recently and it was like, 'Yikes! What the hell happened?"
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"When along the pavement,Palpitating flames of life,People flicker around me,I forget my bereavement,The gap in the great constellation,The place where a star used to be."
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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
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"When we overemphasise miracles we underplay values."
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"I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the jokeof usthe seriousness of usthe dullness of us."
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"The mirror reflect what it sees. So state of our waterbodies, shows our own nature."
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"Life is neither a feast nor a fun. But a fast."
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"There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip."
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"During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything."
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"If death blew a trumpet each time he was coming, there would be no one to greet him on arrival."
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"Savour on the moment, while still waiting for sacred time."
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"To wake up every morning is miracle. To make a good use of every day is an appreciation of miracle. To waste the entire hours of each day is ungratefulness towards a miracle already given and received!"
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"You know that old phrase 'Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it'? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off."
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"The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little, the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live."
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"I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy. I will never forget seeing what love can heal."
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"Until you discover what you can do with your time, you won't know how to go about crucial things."
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"Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad."
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"Too much study depletes the soul of its strength."
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"It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out."
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"When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking."
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"I keep coming back to certain books, and you-to try to find myself again."
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"Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries."
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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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"Relationships: It takes wisdom to know when to turn the page and courage to know when to close the book."
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"But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song."
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"The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker."
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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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"When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help."
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