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Reflection Quotes
"There is more to life than living to earn money."
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"In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?"
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"If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer."
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"By the time you become an expert at marriage, it is too late to start a new one."
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"If your yesterday was much better than your today, then today you will most probably walk around in your yesterday!"
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"There is always a zone where somebody is nobody, there is always a zone where somebody is somebody and there is always a zone where nobody is nobody."
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"If you have few months to live, what will you do?"
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"What you think of your self is more important than what others think of you."
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"What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!"
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"The only thing that matters is we are here to live our lives."
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"Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject."
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"We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world."
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"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
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"I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister, and I was introduced to every niece and sister-in-law in a hundred miles. In retrospect, I'm very grateful for whatever reluctance it was that kept me alone until your mother came. Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what I was waiting for."
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"It seemed at momemts, When I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the sea and some great secert was to be revealed."
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"Words cant explain everything.But silence never fails to mean something."
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"One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right."
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"Capture the sacred-thoughts and write it a journal."
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"God wants you to meditate, everyone must think."
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"Would you love money more than man?"
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"You must know the area of your calling. If you do not know, then pray about it."
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"I stood in the corridor feeling like an angry pebble. It didn't matter where I rolled off to. The mystery and treachery of the world continued, and a pebble like me could get angry over anything it liked and it wouldn't do any good. Librarians not reading, I thought to myself. Sometimes I don't know why I bother."
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"Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it."
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"Is there anything to lose in life? No. The only lost in life is death."
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"I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes."
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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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"Never look back on yesterday's success."
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"We have to be extremely careful in the manner which we live life."
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"Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind."
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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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"Is there any beauty like the bliss of being?"
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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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"The mandate is clear, God's nature must be reflected on the earth."
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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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"Always take an inventory of your life."
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"It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hope, war that you value peace, and hate that you value love."
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"The need is the necessary want."
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"Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life."
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"Understanding leads to acceptance."
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"Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."
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"Blame me not for my mistakes, for that's common, but surely do for my achievements which I'm equally unaware of."
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"Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today."
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"If you hold fast to the past, the devil will take advantage of this and use it as a weapon against you."
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"I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?O flattering glass,Like to my followers in prosperityThou dost beguile me!"
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"I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best. There, gentlemen, since you wanted to know how I was getting on, I have told you. Much good may it do you! I cannot explain further here. I perceive there is something wrong somewhere in our social formulas: what it is can only be discovered by men or women with greater insight than mine--if, indeed, they ever discover it-- at least in our time. 'For who knoweth what is good for man in this life?--and who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?"
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"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
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"All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day."
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"The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them."
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