Quotes About Reflection

How can there be fury felt for things that are gone to dust.

Never mind what you feel. Think. Watch. Think again. And then one step at a time to put things right. As a mason puts one block at a time. To build solid and good. So with thought. Think. Build one thought at a time. Think solid. Then act. Is it?

IT TAKES TIME—loose, unstructured dreamtime—to experience nature in a meaningful way.

In an effort to value and structure time, some of us unintentionally may be killing dreamtime.

the more we know, superficially, the less we penetrate, vertically.

Now, my tree-climbing days long behind me, I often think about the lasting value of those early, deliciously idle days. I have come to appreciate the long view afforded by those treetops. The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Those of us who battle chronic illness are in it for the long haul. I need to come to grips with who I am and what is important before I can function at my best with others. That has yet to happen, for I am a work in progress with no end in sight. Coping is forever an aspiration. I need to stop getting hung up on conventional issues of control and inabilities that just do not matter.

it is only human nature to wonder and second guess about choices made and paths not taken.

I brought myself down. I gave them a sword, and they stuck it in. And they twisted it with relish. And, I guess, if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.

Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created.

A creature designed to look before and after finds that to do the latter has gone out of fashion and that to do the former is becoming impossible.

Weather is a kind of Rorschach test. We see in it what we need to see, or what we feel is missing from our lives.

Take my advice, don't appreciate any man too highly. In the book of every man's life there is a page which he would wish to keep turned down.

How long did it take for a past to die?

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.

History shows again and again how nature points up the folly of man.

This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.

You can spend your money and spend your time. At the end of the day, you can look in your wallet and know how much money you have left. That's the difference between money and time.

Even our best qualities can turn against us, and when they do we are usually the last to know.

The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I've been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I've let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me.

What we, the audience, bring when we come to the theater - what we might be feeling that day. What might have happened to us. That is a big part of what a play is.