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Reflection Quotes
"We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday."
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"When you really realize how you have lived your life, you indeed realize how you must live your life. It is mostly they that have least time to ponder always who always find time to wonder."
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"Philosophy defines our world. I see my life in terms of great words."
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"It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession."
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"The dead neither see nor ear."
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"The pain is necessary to find the power of being."
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"Uncanny situations, reasons to ponder for action!"
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"Time passes so fast. Make time to be still."
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
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"Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!"
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"The gift of the moments and its lessons prepares us for a better tomorrow."
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"I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK."
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"Talk to the creator in a state of peace and solitude and ask Him a question concerning the purpose of your living."
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"Life is a story, until I awake and saw life as a dream."
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"There would be a time, when you will ask for nothing but life."
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"Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life."
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"For it is up to you and meto take solacein nostalgia's armsand our abilityto create the everlastingfrom fleeting moments."
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"Maybe we feel empty because we spend so much of our own time watching other people live their lives, chase their dreams, express their love, and navigate their relationships. And when we turn off our TV or put down our phone... We've nourished nothing of our own."
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"You will need an evidence to show the world that you didn't waste your time here on earth."
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"That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love."
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"Mirror, mirror on the wall, I have placed you in my hallWhere I wander every day.Echo beauty, and you'll stay."
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"Little did I realise how much I would miss those ten minutes, those ten minutes in which I lived an entire lifetime."
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"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye."
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"Solitude allows you to be able to arrange your life only around your destiny."
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"I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!"
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"Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified, and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones."
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"We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take."
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"Most people on earth are just spending time at work, in school or in church without having anything of value to show for it."
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"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."
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"We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don't even know what that means."
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"If you never love, then you never lived."
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"Is worth for a man to lose his soul, and gain worldly wealth?"
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"The brevity of life is the grace to walk on your own path."
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"Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation."
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"The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and be able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water."
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"I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled."
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"My father once made us,' she began, 'keep a diary, in two columns; on one side we were to put down in the morning what we thought would be the course and events of the coming day, and at night we were to put down on the other side what really had happened. It would be to some people rather a sad way of telling their lives,' (a tear dropped upon my hand at these words) - 'I don't mean that mine has been sad, only so very different to what I expected."
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"We can only live life when we understand life."
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"Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and y."
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"Whatever problem you have can be solved through solitude."
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"When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure."
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"The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value."
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"It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity."
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"When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands."
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"For a short time, your beauty is an important matter. It the long run, what is important is what you are."
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"We are all a whole bunch of accidental products."
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"Solitude helps you to convert your time into clarity of purpose."
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"The most important thing you need to do to accomplish your purpose is to stop, get comfortable, sit down and find time for thinking."
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"It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vices perhaps they should be called-- were too strong not to hamper a man without advantages; who should be as cold-blooded as a fish and as selfish as a pig to have a really good chance of being one of his country's worthies. You may ridicule me--I am quite willing that you should-- I am a fit subject, no doubt. But I think if you knew what I have gone through these last few years you would rather pity me. And if they knew"--he nodded towards the college at which the dons were severally arriving--"it is just possible they would do the same."
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"The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing."
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