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Reflection Quotes


"Though a new cloth makes you look new, when you see the old cloths, you remember the old life."


"Glorify what is great not what is important."


"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid."


"Time can be as fluid as water, and never in the way you'd like; it slows down to a standstill when you wish you could get things over with, and rushes by in a blur when you wish things would last."


"Make correct conclusions from the negative solutions you have experienced."


"Every human being ask this question of himself."


"What the advertisements are telling us on TV is not the truth. Life is not about comfort."


"We are all alone in this world, even in a crowd."


"The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled only in general phrases. Even without memory, the life is bound into one by a zone of dependence in growth and decay; but intense memory forces a man to own his blameworthy past. With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame."


"I like Aristotle, but I don't agree with his cosmological argument about god."


"Everything that happens around and within us is a reflection of our thoughts, imaginations, and actions."


"If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance very various heroic and mean splendid and sordid infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme as great as a man some think even better."


"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."


"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."


"When we overemphasise miracles we underplay values."


"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."


"Every man carries his own past with him," Hayt said."


"Is life not more important than anything in this world?"


"Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?"


"The deeds and motive of man define his personality."


"What else can we do in the wilderness, than to wonder?"


"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."


"We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us."


"If you have to dwell on anything, think of noble pure thoughts."


"Is the any model like morality?"


"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."


"Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts."


"Have I thought long to see this morning's face,And doth it give me such a sight as this?"


"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."


"Unfortunately, people seldom think about the purpose they were uniquely designed to fulfil and don't ask question of who they are or what their identity is."


"There is no greater poverty, than poverty of the mind."


"The person who offends, and the person who has been offended and awaiting for a revenge have one thing in common: the real uncertainties of tomorrow is truly uncertain to both of them."


"If you response to every demand, you will be in despair."


"When you can only remember the mundane things you did but do not have any valuable products to show for your time, then you are a time spender."


"In times of need, you will know the souls who love you."


"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."


"Solitude helps you to convert your time into the clarity of purpose."


"There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip."


"They didn't speak as the sun slowly sank before them. Why was it most colorful when it was about to vanish for the night? Was it angry at being forced belong the horizon? Or was it a showman, giving a performance before retiring?Why was the most colorful part of people's bodies-the brightness of their blood-hidden beneath the skin, never to be seen unless something went wrong?"


"Find the truth and forget the mistake."


"Most of us would benefit greatly from recognizing and accepting the difference between our history and our destiny."


"If death blew a trumpet each time he was coming, there would be no one to greet him on arrival."


"For a great life a road map of life is more important than the journey itself."



"The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. ['Into a new life']"


"What is necessary is what is needed."


"Savour on the moment, while still waiting for sacred time."


"Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written."


"To wake up every morning is miracle. To make a good use of every day is an appreciation of miracle. To waste the entire hours of each day is ungratefulness towards a miracle already given and received!"


"The question "who am I" is the first question that every person should ask himself."
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