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Reflection Quotes
"Two great questions exist in each day; 'what must I do excellently today?' for morning and 'what did I do wrong or right today?' for evening. When we fail to know the real reasons why we wake up each day and why we retire at night, we fail to know the real reasons why we live."
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"A coat of paint and a quote of words both make cosmetic differences."
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"Instead of writing my rules, I followed his. And that's when I knew it all went wrong."
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"The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little, the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live."
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"Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night."
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"Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead."
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"She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters - the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and vain will be their strife after virtue. As the years pass, they are censured. Their pleasantry and their piety show cracks, their wit becomes cynicism, their unselfishness hypocrisy; they feel and produce discomfort wherever they go."
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"The beginning of a new millennium is to consider and reorganize our life."
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"There will always be a moment to feel sorry for the mistakes, but indeed it is not today."
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"I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter."
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"You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings."
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"My aunt must have been perfectly well aware that she would not see Swann again, that she would never leave her own house any more, but this ultimate seclusion seemed to be accepted by her with all the more readiness for the very reason which, to our minds, ought to have made it more unbearable; namely, that such a seclusion was forced upon her by the gradual and steady diminution in her strength which she was able to measure daily, which, by making every action, every movement 'tiring' to her if not actually painful, gave to inaction, isolation and silence the blessed, strengthening and refreshing charm of repose."
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"The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person."
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"It would be so nice if something made sense for a change."
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"An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even play the piano. She muddled Armenians and Turks; loved success; hated discomfort; must be liked; talked oceans of nonsense: and to this day, ask her what the Equator was, and she did not know.All the same, that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one should wake up in the morning; see the sky; walk in the park; meet Hugh Whitbread; then suddenly in came Peter; then these roses; it was enough. After that, how unbelievable death was!-that it must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all; how, every instant . . ."
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"Stop for a moment... let's see what you have skipped!"
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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas,at the long course of the rivers,at the vast compass of the ocean,at the circular motion of the stars,and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."
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"What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I'd better figure out what I rubbing up against."
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"We had the experience but missed the meaning."
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"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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"Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!"
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"The mine is always bigger than the gem."
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"Has it tortured you as much as it's tortured me?" He asked. "Don't call it torture when it's self-inflicted. You always have a choice."
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"Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed - because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays."
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"I will never forget feeling scared and vulnerable. I will never forget feeling the deep sad loss of so many lives. I will never forget the smell of the smoke that reached across the water and delivered a deep feeling of doom into my gut. I will never forget feeling the boosted sense of unity and pride. I will never forget seeing the courageous actions of so many men and women. I will never forget seeing people of all backgrounds working together in community. I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy. I will never forget seeing what love can heal."
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"we came naked into the world and we will exit naked."
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"If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults."
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"There is nothing to lose in this life. Naked I came from mother's womb and naked will I go into the grave."
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"Your failures should motivate you to look at your life goals from a different angle."
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"If your yesterday was much better than your today, then today you will most probably walk around in your yesterday!"
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"Two puzzles that cannot be solved:The miracle of birth and misery of death."
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"If you will have to dwell on anything, think of noble pure thoughts."
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"Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies-good or bad-cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good."
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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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"If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it."
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"An inch to a man's heart is a mile to his wallet."
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"The price you will offer yourself to the world, is how much they will buy you."
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"Most people that I know who go to church actually go there to twist the arms of God so that he can get all the discomfort away from them."
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"There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless."
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"It is life near the bone where it is sweetest."
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"Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled."
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"The greatest joy is to be a mirror of God's love."
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"As you see you can't change what has happen in past if I could I do my best to don't happen in other words I will fix the error, like not watching this stupid film or video and this minutes which have taken to do this stuff, to be used for extra time in the future. But unfortunately I wake up and hear "Hello, Hello, hey, hey you are living reality what you want is madness!"
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"Maybe we are the wealthiest people around the world, but we haven't found wealth on the road."
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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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"If, to him, love was a celebration of one's self and of existence-then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love."
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"The difference in the quality of life between people can be found in the quality of the questions they ask themselves."
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"Silence is the most expensive to buy."
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"Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows."
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