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Reflection Quotes
"life will come to an end one moment in time."
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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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"The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived."
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"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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"Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!"
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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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"Has it tortured you as much as it's tortured me?" He asked. "Don't call it torture when it's self-inflicted. You always have a choice."
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"Solitude is the greatest treasure and through it, you can rebuild your life, reorder your life and solve life's problems."
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"It is the beauty of life that makes our lives worth living."
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"Top question of the dying: "What made me sick?"
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"Two puzzles that cannot be solved:The miracle of birth and misery of death."
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"We walk alone in the wilderness."
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"The second direction of prayer lies in us addressing our own circumstances and changing them ourselves."
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"Most people that I know who go to church actually go there to twist the arms of God so that he can get all the discomfort away from them."
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"The greatest joy is to be a mirror of God's love."
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"When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left."
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"You don't have to be in hurry in life."
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"I thought of the great spectrum of The Mecca - black people from Belize, black people with Jewish mothers, black people with fathers from Bangalore, black people from Toronto and Kingston, black people who spoke Russian, who spoke Spanish, who played Mongo SantamarAa, who understood mathematics and sat up in bone labs, unearthing the mysteries of the enslaved. There was more out there than I had ever hoped for, and I wanted you to have it. I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in schools, alone, nor on the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is. I wanted 'Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus' to immediately be obvious to you."
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"The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have."
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"The entire world above you, around you, beneath you, and beside you, is insignificant in comparison to the world within you."
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"Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places."
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"Is it the sea you hear in me,Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?"
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"When distress comes your way, pause and ponder."
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"The whole journey of life has been broken down into bits: days! Day by day we live life! Day by day we live and leave something behind; something good or something bad! Something mediocre or something noble! Until you know how to use your day, you may end your days and ponder over your days; how you used them and how you wasted them!"
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"For how long are you going to keep wasting your money, time, and energy trying to impress people who will never matter in your life?"
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"Serving my country was a life-changing experience for me. It was during those years that I realized the importance of commitment, dedication, honor, and discipline. I have never laughed so much; nor have I ever prayed so much. I made life-long friends. The leaders and heroes I served with helped shape me into the man I am today. I feel honored to have been a part of such a great tradition and grateful to others who have walked the same path. Thank you!"
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"Time is much more valuable than money."
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"When a human being is brought up with the concern of simply taking care of his body and the external aspect of his life, he is acting as though he is only biomass."
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"Love lost is better than hate found. True criticism is better than false praise. Genuine enemies are better than counterfeit friends."
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"If that church is not adding value to your life, you may want to reconsider how often you go to church."
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"There are often great lessons to be learned at the roots of stress, drama, and heartache. Don't let the magnitude of the circumstance blind you to the value of the lesson."
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"Find solitude and discover ways to add value to yourself."
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"The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!"
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"I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action."
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"I realize that I don't know where to start. Not because I'm unsure of my story, but because I'm not sure why I feel compelled to tell it in the first place. What can be achieved by unearthing the past?"
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"He felt he knew now what time would be like without seasons and what heat would be like without light and what man would be like without salvation. He didn't care if he never made the train and if it had not been for what suddenly caught his attention, like a cry out of the gathering dusk, he might have forgotten there was a station to go to."
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"Woman is woman."
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"She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?"
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"If you hate me, you only harm yourself."
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"We have so much to learn from a fallen teardrop which is wiped away from our cheek never to be felt again."
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"I can't remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions."
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"I go to the ocean to say goodbye."
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"The soul knows its sorrow."
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"There is nothing more precious than the wealth of time."
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"Your mind is your master."
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"Look behind you in gratitude. Look ahead of you in hope. Look beside you in caution. Look around you in faith."
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"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."
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"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing."
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