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Reflection Quotes
"Cherish the beauty and cherish the pain, both will give you experience and you will never be the same."
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"What do you truly want to be?"
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"Double-no triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth."
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"When did my youth slip away from me? I suddenly thought. It was over, wasn't it? Seemed just like yesterday I was still only half grown up. Huey Lewis and the News had a couple of hit songs then. Not so many years ago. And now here I was, inside a closed circuit, spinning my wheels. Knowing I wasn't getting anywhere but spinning just the same. I had to. Had to keep that up or I wouldn't be able to survive."
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"A few diaries could replace tons of self help books simply because their written in the first person..."
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"I urge you to sit with yourself for 5 minutes and pour your heart out, ask yourself the serious questions ~ not the day to day duties we get caught up in. I can assure you, the 5 minutes spent reflecting on the life you have lived and how much more you're yet to achieve will spark something in you that we all forgot we have."
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"Everyone should have a place in your heart, but only a special few should have a place in your life."
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"Mirroring is simply the process of discreetly matching and mirroring the subtle behaviors and qualities of the person with whom you are connecting. It's a form of behavioral reflection that unconsciously reveals, "We're more alike than we are different."
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"If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it."
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"The uniqueness of different colours represents the uniqueness of individuals!"
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"Some stories, you use up. Others use you up."
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"As Mary delivered what was to be her last lecture about the Galapagos Islands, she would be stopped mid-sentence for five seconds by a doubt which, if expressed in words, might have come out something like this: "Maybe I'm just a crazy lady who had wandered off the street and into this classroom and started explaining the mysteries of life to these people. And they believe me, although I am utterly mistaken about simply everything."She had to wonder, too, about all the supposedly great teachers of the past, who, although their brains were healthy, had turned out to be as wrong as Roy about what was really going on."
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"What an abyss of ignorance hiding under the guise of love and care!"
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"We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions "helping my child to gain admission."
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"Regret and remorse is a dialectic issue about what has been done, about what should have been done and about what should not have been done. ['Island of regret. Island of remorse']"
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
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"Many people experience the travesty of regret in their end days; the realization that nothing held them back, that nothing was in their way, that there is no one to blame, only themselves. Don't just sit by waiting for your life to happen, make it happen! Don't just hope your dreams will come alive, breathe life into them! Don't let your fear help you birth a well-nourished regret, take action today! At the end of the day, at the end of the year, at the end of your life, live in such a manner that you can hold your head up high, smile, and be proud of a life well lived."
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"While in bondage, the strength of the mind is not put into full action in order to maximize its full potential."
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"Some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout."
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"Since life is in time, since life is in seconds, minutes and hours; that means to waste time is to waste life. To lose time is to lose a life. So don't waste time!"
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"To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse."
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"The moment we understand life, we will begin to live."
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"To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars."
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"Though a new cloth makes you look new, when you see the old cloths, you remember the old life."
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"When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question."
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"Whatever comes to your consciousness is what you act out."
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"One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie."
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"Everything that happens around and within us is a reflection of our thoughts, imaginations, and actions."
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"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."
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"When you avoid one life question, you answer another life question. The question is : what life question do you want to answer?"
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"What else can we do in the wilderness, than to wonder?"
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"Be patient enough to identify the real reasons why you meet people, situations and moments in time or else you would be patient enough to analyze the real reasons why you missed people, situations and moments in time in regret or in wonder."
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"The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization."
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"I have made twice mistake in my whole life, both falling in love with the wrong people."
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"Without work, we die daily."
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"Each and every minute spent reviewing one's lifestyle is never wasted. A better life comes when one takes time to re-order his/her steps, having learnt lessons worth applying!"
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"We are here on earth for a while."
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"Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written."
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"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"Life on earth is a transition. Death is final rest of every man. What legacy do you wish to live?"
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"My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes."
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"The Golden Age was never the present Age."
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"Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words."
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"Think of your personal and professional life-are you attracting what you want? Are you attracting the kind of people you like? Do you feel that life is working for you or against you? How have others been treating you? Are you pleased with your results?"
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"What you are seeking is yourself."
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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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"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."
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"Stop for a moment... let's see what you have skipped!"
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"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"
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