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Reflection Quotes
"Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere."
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"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."
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"And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through."
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"The beginning of a new millennium is to consider and reorganize our life."
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"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."
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"Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery."
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"But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer."
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"How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?"
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"I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that."
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"We dig holes for ourselves, of comfortable living, and it's hard to see just how deep down you are until you suddenly want to take a look at the world up there, some fresh airand realise you can't get up. You're too far down."
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"Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought."
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"Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins besides blood is the distillation of every act committed, the sediment of all the visions, wishes, dreams and experiences. All the past emotions converge to tint the skin and flavor the lips, to regulate the pulse and produce crystals in the eyes."
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"She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led."
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"This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence."
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"Deliberately and purposefully schedule meetings with yourself. These are the most important meetings in the life of one who intends to make their success deliberate. During these meeting you do much of the quality and honest communication with yourself. This is besides the conversations you are always carrying on with yourself in your own head or audibly. That doesn't mean you are crazy, we all do it and we just need to improve the quality and positivity of those conversations."
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"Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you."
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"I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb."
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"When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other? What will you answer? "We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other? or "This is a community? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions."
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"Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did."
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"Those who envy you inadvertently admit to being inferior to you."
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"If your outer world is shaky, go within."
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"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."
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"I've never looked forward before. I've always looked back. I think about the past way too much and I think about what I should have done and everything I did wrong and I've never once looked forward in my life."
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"I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him."
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"I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow."
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"We might do well to take a look at what we've crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we've crammed into our hearts."
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"Why does one ruminate about the past? He is treating his wounded egoism."
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"Distance lends enchantment to the view."
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"We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?"
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"The greatest joy is to be a mirror of God's love."
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"We were revisionists, what we revised was ourselves."
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"If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!"
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"I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from."
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"Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime."
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"Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin."
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"It is never a river's fault that one cannot swim."
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"A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself."
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"Always take an inventory of your life."
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"It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hope, war that you value peace, and hate that you value love."
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"Do we reflect on life? Someday this life will be gone."
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"You cannot carry your past without dropping your future."
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"If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked."
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"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."
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"In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears."
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"Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need."
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"I have to learn to hear music, to see beauty, and to find joy in silence"
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"The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject."
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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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"Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights."
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"An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court."
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