Quotes About Reflection

I am often tongue-tied with strangers and have what the philosopher Monsieur Diderot calls l'esprit de l'escalier, staircase wit: only long after a remark is made to me will my imagination supply the thing I should have said in reply.

Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die.

Pân? când nu am în?eles c? ?i eu sunt muritor, nu am ?tiut ce este cu adev?rat etern

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Walking a trail frees my mind to wander....

There's a point in love where we all can choose to be in love or not to be in love.

The past shouldn't rule the present.

a lonely old man.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.

Coming that close to death you get kissed.

Now my future is all behind me …

Our national poet WB Yeats said that every Irish writer had a decision to take: whether to express Ireland or exploit it. In his day, the choice lay between expressing the nation to itself or exploiting it for the amused condescension of a mainly overseas audience. Holding a mirror up to the people was a risky business: many, seeing an unflattering image, were inclined to smash the glass in anger.

history has a way of intruding upon the present, and

The radiator hissed quietly in its corner as Katherine got ready for bed. She slid into the cool silk of her nightgown and then began brushing out her long hair. Freed from its confining braid, her hair tumbled over her shoulders, its

Slip away and come watch the sunset." -Marcus 'There are more calls to finish.' -Shari "Those will wait. The sunset won't" -Marcus

Sometimes life is just awful, and that's the way it is. It doesn't have to reflect so much on God, as just be noted as this is what man is willing to do to his fellow man. It doesn't mean God is like this too.

You are at your best, Ann, when you are alone with God. That's probably true of every Christian to one degree or another.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever. Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.

We never fully understand what we have been told until we experience it. Learning not embedded in experience is forever crippled. Unfortunately, our present society is schooled, not educated.

If we examine with clear eyes what we have done to the majority of people on earth, to the earth itself, and to all other forms of life thereon, we can only hope that there are no gods, or if there are, that they are not just.

Knowledge is never in doubt. Wisdom is never certain.

There is nothing that dictates behavior more than what we want others to think of us. When that happens, we become a reflection in our own mind of what we believe is reflected in the mind of another, neither of which has the slightest chance of being correct. Talk about dogs chasing tails.

If we pay great attention to the meaning of each moment of our unique life, the meaning of life in general will attend to itself.