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Reflection Quotes
"They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost."
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"Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return."
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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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"The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today."
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"As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time."
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"Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them."
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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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"We usually fail at the things most important to us, precisely because they are so important to us."
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"There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet."
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"One secret to wisdom: think more, speak less. If you let your words be few, your troubles will not be many."
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"They began to come upon chains and packsaddles, singletrees, dead mules, wagons. Saddletrees eaten bare of their rawhide coverings and weathered white as bone, a light chamfering of miceteeth along the edges of the wood. They rode through a region where iron will not rust nor tin tarnish. The ribbed frames of dead cattle under their patches of dried hide lay like the ruins of primitive boats upturned upon that shoreless void and they passed lurid and austere the black and desiccated shapes of horses and mules that travelers had stood afoot."
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"My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes."
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"When the minds of men slip from realities to fantasies without thinking of the future consequences, then we must ponder. When the hearts of men are entangled with what though might seem great but yet, specious ambitions without pondering over the resulting footprints, then we ought to take precautions. When the hands of men unwittingly and for the sake of self-gratification find the right weapons and dexterity for the wrong purpose, then massacre and cruelties leave indelible footprints of sorrow and bitterness in the hearts of men. We shall always look back to the footprints of yesterday to say had we know if we don't take a critical look at today's footsteps. There is always an alternative that is better than good."
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"You are your own travel light."
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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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"Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments."
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"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
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"If we go down the rabbit hole of our unconsciousness and try to unravel the knotty points of our life story we may encounter a bunch of hidden niceties or emotional stowaways. Forgotten details in the windmill of our mind may daintily reveal, where things might have gone wrong. ['I wonder what went wrong.']"
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"Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life."
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"Find what is beautiful in a person and appreciate it. Ignore what is wrong. Everyone has divine beauty but underneath can be a hidden diabolical ego."
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"Always account for each unit of passing time."
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"Relationship Time to Aloneness." Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present."
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"We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday."
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"If you hate me, you only harm yourself. You better love me."
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"I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time."
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"If you reflect on death, you find the vanity of life."
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"Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round."
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"life will come to an end one moment in time."
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"At Night on the High SeasAt night, when the sea cradles meAnd the pale star gleamLies down on its broad waves,Then I free myself whollyFrom all activity and all the loveAnd stand silent and breathe purely,Alone, alone cradled by the seaThat lies there, cold and silent, with a thousand lights.Then I have to think of my friendsAnd my gaze sinks into their eyes,And I ask each one, silent and alone:"Are you still mine?Is my sorrow a sorrow to you, my death a death?Do you feel from my love, my grief,Just a breath, just an echo?"And the sea peacefully gazes back, silent,And smiles: NOAnd no greetings and no answers come from anywhere."
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"If when you think of yourself, you think only of your physical body, even if you are physically fit and firm, at your ideal weight with beautiful hair, eyes or lips- if that is how you gauge your success, you are mistaken."
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"Philosophy defines our world. I see my life in terms of great words."
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"The paradox of life, I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair."
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"Is life experiment? Is yours to experience."
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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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"Beauty is not out there, it is the reflection of your inner beauty. You carry it with you always."
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"You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude."
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"The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived."
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"Dedicate time to discovering yourself and find out the purpose of your creation."
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"We fail to say the right words, because we choose to say the wrong words! We choose to say the wrong words, because we fail to think of the right words!"
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"We need to analyze our picture of the world."
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"Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth."
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"Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall. The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful in memory: astonishing, in fact. She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it had to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun."
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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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"I am always saddened by the death of a good person. It is from this sadness that a feeling of gratitude emerges. I feel honored to have known them and blessed that their passing serves as a reminder to me that my time on this beautiful earth is limited and that I should seize the opportunity I have to forgive, share, explore, and love. I can think of no greater way to honor the deceased than to live this way."
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"The world system enslaves through jobs."
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"Whatever you do is your deed."
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"There is more to life than living to earn money."
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"There is an opportunity cost in every action."
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"Do not just go through the day without pausing to ponder! You shall only retire wondering."
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