Quotes About Reflection

Because arguments require an expenditure of time and energy, we need to consider what is worth arguing about and what is not.

put problems into perspective—they give you a means for standing back and getting a better view of a situation

I don't know if I killed my dad or not.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

One thing I've learned, Father--that in this life it's best to keep the then and the now and the what's-to-be as close together in your thoughts as you can. It's when you let gaps creep in, when you separate out the intervals and dwell on them, that you can't bear the sorrow.

in this life it's best to keep the then and the now and the what's-to-be as close together in your thoughts as you can. It's when you let gaps creep in, when you separate out the intervals and dwell on them, that you can't bear the sorrow.

Discordantly—out of the mists—he heard her voice: "Dead faces," she said whitely, "they're all the same. . . . They don't, I mean, tell of the person as they were alive.

Solitude my solace, wrapped around me like layers of golden hair. Stacks of books and I can sing as loud as I please all day and night. [from the poem, Rapunzel: I like the Quiet ]

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.

Il me semblait en effet qu'une idée, aussi brillante fût-elle, n'était pas vraiment digne d'être retenue si, pour simplement s'en souvenir, il fallait la noter.

Écrire, c'est fermer les yeux en les gardant ouverts.

There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...

Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both together and in our different ways? (7)

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

I don't miss politics.