Quotes About Reflection

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

People should learn to live in the now. They spend all their time thinking about past glories and worrying about the future. Meanwhile all the moments of spontaneity and beauty they'll ever have in their lives are flitting from future into past without being noticed. That's why there are so many grumpy assholes in the world

I never watched the sun when it was overhead dragging the day after it.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy.

We read to know we're not alone.

We read to know we're not alone.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

I have no future,' said Hanno. 'I need no prophecy. You talk too much, woman.

He urges himself to strengthen his virtues now, without any further delay. This is what he means when he commands himself to limit himself to the present. Worrying about the future and regretting the past badly interfere with focussing on being virtuous in the present. He writes that if he can cut free of distracting imprassions that cling to his mind and can free his mind from the future and the past, then he can make himself, as Empedocles says, "a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness.

How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?

Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

La selva sigue pegada a la piel aunque uno ya este lejos, la fuerza del río sigue presente cuando hemos sido su juguete por tantos meses; es como si el tiempo que fluye fuera apenas un recuerdo del río, como si las horas presurosas fueran todavía sus orillas

Uno cree saber lo que busca, pero sólo al final, cuando lo encuentra, comprende realmente qué andaba buscando.

Siempre es que, realizadas por otros, nuestras mismas acciones parecen más sucias

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.