Quotes About Reflection

Your life right now is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great. Since you attract to you what you think about most, it is easy to see what your dominant thoughts have been on every subject of your life, because that is what you have experienced. Until now!

Psalms 46:10 tells us to "Be Still and Know that I am God."

Experience makes one come to terms with life, to be at one with the mind and the heart. And most people are suffering in some way.

To realise that one has nobody in the world—that is a sobering thought.

Almost twenty, I thought. And here I am at twenty-five still thinking I am young and have plenty of time to decide what to do with my life.

Time is the only healer.

in some ways I feel that my ability to love and to be passionate died on that battlefield in the war. I sort of shut off who I had been before and became an observer rather than a participant.

I'm sorry if I'm a poor specimen of a companion today. It has been a worrying week.

I tore off the brown paper wrapping from the large parcel and found myself looking at my own face. It was so startling that I almost dropped the picture. It was even more startling when I read the inscription: "Joanna Langley. 1749–1823.

I am Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter of the Duke of Glen Garry and Rannoch—known to my friends as Georgie. My grandmother was the least attractive of Queen Victoria's daughters, who consequently never managed to snare a Romanov or a Kaiser, for which I am truly grateful and I expect she was too.

It's strange having nothing to do expect be waited on.

Let the past inform your future, but not define it.

Slow and the world will reveal itself, his father had once said during a walk in the woods, explaining how chaotic and fast things had become, how the world is harder to understand because it operates at a speed non-conducive to humanity and how in hectic moments the act of slowing down, closing your eyes, taking a breath, offers a fresh perspective.

He looked down at the mouse he held in his left hand.

I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

las mujeres son como las ranas, que por una que zambulle salen cuatro a flor de agua.

To write a letter is to send a message to the future; to speak of the present with an addressee who is not there, knowing nothing about how that person is (in what spirits, with whom) while we write and, above all, later: while reading over what we have written. Correspondence is the utopian form of conversation because it annihilates the present and turns the future into the only possible place for dialogue.

A ratos preocupado porque llevo muchos meses sin escribir, marcado por el vértigo y la circulación social. Reuniones, fiestas, entretenimientos. Decidido a terminar con esa farsa y sentarme a escribir salga como salga, por fin.

Desde luego, los domingos son idiotas.

Es fácil reconocer el alma de una mujer en su manera de marcar un libro (atenta, minuciosa, personal, provocadora), porque si uno ama a una persona, hasta las discretas señales que deja en un libro se parecen a ella.

Para pensar hay que dejar de tomar decisiones.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

Se recordo quem fui, outrem me vejo, E o passado é o presente na lembrança. Quem fui é alguém que amo Porém somente em sonho. E a saudade que me aflige a mente Não é de mim nem do passado visto, Senão de quem habito Por trás dos olhos cegos. Nada, senão o instante, me conhece. Minha mesma lembrança é nada, e sinto Que quem sou e quem fui São sonhos diferentes.

Sábio é o que se contenta com o espetáculo do mundo