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Reflection Quotes
"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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"When I live each day so well, I will have no regrets when tomorrow never comes."
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"To accept one's past -- one's history -- is not the same thing as drowning in it, it is learning how to use it."
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"This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."
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"We live as if life will never end."
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"To get free from sexual sin, you have to fight."
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"She had experienced something beautiful, and he had failed to experience it with her. The two ways in which their memories reacted to the evening storm sharply delimit love and non-love."
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"What if, tomorrow is your last day on earth? Think!"
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"But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.'Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry."
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"It's January and I'm kicking snow off the ground. I just threw out the flower you made me promise to water, handle with care, because I was too careless, you said. Careless with things and people, around me and behindand I remember being still for just a second or two, thinking that it's so much easier to leave and start anew, than take care of what's already here."
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"It appears that time has turned that young woman, who imagined herself a romantic heroine, into something of a comic character, but I remain fond of her. We are relatives, after all."
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"Be a mirror of life. Let everyone see their own astonishing beauty in your mirror."
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"I get lost in the magical beauty that is all around me. My mind is an enchanted magician who mysteriously creates all of that magnificent beauty."
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"The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried."
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"Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world."
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"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."
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"Dead ends are where the real thinking begins."
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"When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers."
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"So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life."
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"The mind speaks, thought it does not have lips. The heart moves, though it does not have feet. The soul rises, though it does not have wings."
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"Thoughtful for Winter's future sorrow,Its gloom and scarcity;Prescient to-day, of want to-morrow,Toiled quiet Memory.'Tis she that from each transient pleasureExtracts a lasting good;'Tis she that finds, in summer, treasureTo serve for winter's food.And when Youth's summer day is vanished,And Age brings Winter's stress,Her stores, with hoarded sweets replenished,Life's evening hours will bless."
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"Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries."
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"He felt more crypts cracking open inside of him; the stench he smelled was not decayed bodies but decayed memories, and that was somehow worse."
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"The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel."
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"If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol."
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"For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget."
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"Self-reflection enables every person to alter the trajectory of their personal storyline by reviewing a series of episodic occurrences and making value judgments regarding the past. How we perceive our history colors the present, our deeds of today script the future outcome of individual persons, and the outcome of many people making conscious decisions using their cognitive processes including the ability to remember and share memories influences the direction of human development and the progress of society."
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"There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back."
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"When you feel that others are lacking and failing ....first assess the skill, style, quality, results, mindset, support, professionalism and spirit with which you yourself play the game."
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"I didn't appreciate the moment as much as I should have while living it, but I can attribute that to my poor emotional state and hindsight."
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"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
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"I often think with regret of that fresh, beautiful feeling of boundless, disinterested love which came to an end without having ever found self-expression or return. It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood's days, for those days to come back to me!"
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"I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home."
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"I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not a true likeness of the real society of today."
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"I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases."
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"We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves."
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"Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours."
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"Focus on miracles brings selfishness."
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"Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person."
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"You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind."
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"On this night I had searched for them without success, fearing to find them; they were nowhere in the house, nor about the moonlit dawn. For, although the sun is lost to us for ever, the moon, full-orbed or slender, remains to us. Sometimes it shines by night, sometimes by day, but always it rises and sets, as in that other life."
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"The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember."
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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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"The misery of sleep is beyond the understanding of men."
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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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"It's hard to find time to think about Kansas."
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"My aunt must have been perfectly well aware that she would not see Swann again, that she would never leave her own house any more, but this ultimate seclusion seemed to be accepted by her with all the more readiness for the very reason which, to our minds, ought to have made it more unbearable; namely, that such a seclusion was forced upon her by the gradual and steady diminution in her strength which she was able to measure daily, which, by making every action, every movement 'tiring' to her if not actually painful, gave to inaction, isolation and silence the blessed, strengthening and refreshing charm of repose."
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"life will come to an end one moment in time."
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