Quotes About Reflection

We can't just erase the history we don't like, then there won't be any lessons to be learned.

They will want answers. Then they'll want silence.

The things you've done and the things you've said; the fists you've raised and the bruises you've kissed, everything has finally come together and will now stay together.

But it's over. It's over and you know it- No League Championships. No FA Cups. No European Cups- The roar and the whistle. The applause and the adoration- Finished forever. Second best. Forever.

Try This What did you learn during your first twelve years of education that matters in your life today?

We are working so hard in this country on the details of school improvement that we don't always stop to consider the big picture—if we are actually working on the right things.

In teaching for truly lifeworthy learning, might we hope to teach for wisdom?

I just used my Bible to smash a bug on my desk. That's bad, isn't it?) The

That was how long ago?

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it

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We should recognize that they reflect things that we're doing, not just things that are happening to us. We should understand that, although some of the human-caused factors may seem virtually inexorable, others are within our control.

Everything important we learn too late.

Socrates had it backward. He thought the unexamined life is not worth living. I think no one's life holds up to examination. The more time you spend thinking the more you notice that everyone else is doing something better or more important than you.

El yo presente "es" y el yo anterior "fue", y, en verdad, lo que "fue" no es idéntico a lo que "es". El lamento y la culpa son el resultado de equiparar el yo presente que "es" con el yo anterior que "era", pero en realidad ya no es; ambos no son iguales.

Theological reflection…is a rigorous and prayerful discipline of taking the time to meditate on my text and how it relates to God's plan of redemption. It is an exercise that asks how my passage relates to the Bible as a whole, especially to the saving acts of God in Jesus.

Whatever kind of energy you bring to it, it will give it right back to you. If you're frustrated, it'll act frustrated. If you're calm, it's more likely to be calm, too.

Getting stuck on the past will weigh you down and looking into the future will only create worries.

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The process of reconciliation implies that people who want to engage in interfaith cooperation should be prepared to reflect critically on their own religious tradition. They should also contemplate what place their own religious tradition assigns to people of other faith traditions. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 52)

What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn't strike me as one of them. Maybe I sound like some Victorian who felt that forty years ought to be enough for any man, but one of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

I am going to the bad place, as is my wont.