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Reflection Quotes
"I admit to being prone to deep thinking, which " given that I'm emerging from dark times " can take me to some very sombre or profound places. But this is no bad thing. I always resurface wiser and with a way of viewing things that is different to before."
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"You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?"
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"You NEED to look back to remember the awesome memories, to remember the positive lessons you have learned, to help someone else learn from what you have lived and to see how far you have come."
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"But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song."
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"The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker."
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"Too late... everything's always too late."
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"Why are these things permitted? What sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain for the afternoon, and then-fire, earthquake, death! As if it were Sodom and Gomorrah! All our work undone, all the work- What are these Martians? What are we? I answered, clearing my throat."
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"Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you."
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"For a dream to die, something so tragic would have definitely gone wrong! Be careful you don't kill your own dreams."
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"In vain we roared;in vain we triedTo rouse her into laughter:Her pensive glances wandered wideFrom orchestra to rafter -"TIER UPON TIER!" she said,and sighed;And silence followed after."
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"The thoughts of the morning becomes the blessing for the day."
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"What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!"
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"If you listen closely, silence can be deafening."
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"We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future."
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"To doubt is to deny yourself of your own existence."
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"Complain and remain. Praise and be raised."
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"Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small."
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"Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention."
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"What you really value is what you miss not what you have."
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"I can't destroy things so beautiful.""Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something."
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"Always take an inventory of your life."
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"You cannot carry your past without dropping your future."
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"Blame me not for my mistakes, for that's common, but surely do for my achievements which I'm equally unaware of."
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"I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind-and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression."
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"In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time."
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"Woman's at best a contradiction still."
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"Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappoints, so does adulthood. So does life. Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn t all it s cracked up to be."
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"For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself."
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"Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more."
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"Was this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it is my best memory of their exchange."
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"Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete."
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"I should never be left alone with my mind for too long."
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"If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?"
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"Life feels good if you don't know what it is."
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"Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be."
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"One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."
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"To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty."
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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
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"And we all end up where we started."
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"Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts."
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"Is anyone anywhere happy?"
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"Know thy own point: this kind, this due degreeOf blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee."
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"Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond."
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"I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old."
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"Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains."
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"One day I woke up and realized no amount of love, care, pain, hurt, anger, or retribution could ever transform those who are evil into good or kind people. That day I let go; I stopped caring for them, gave up any hope for their souls, and knew they were never worthy of me or my time."
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