Quotes About Reflection

Kreb vergisst nie die Friedhöfe, wo er beerdigt worden ist.

Incerc sa le explic parintilor mei ca viata e un dar buclucas. La inceput ai tendinta sa-l supraestimezi crezand ca viata pe care ai primit-o este vesnica. Apoi, dimpotriva, il subestimezi, gasind ca-i o porcarie, scurta de nu-ntelegi nimic din ea si pe care uneori ti-ar veni s-o arunci de sa nu se vada. Abia catre sfarsit pricepi ca nu-i vorba de niciun dar, ci de un simplu imprumut. Pe care trebuie sa incerci sa-l meriti.

Dumnezeu e zgarcit. -Sa zicem ca face economie. Ii cunoaste bine pe oameni, de vreme ce el i-a facut. Stie ca cei mai multi nu gandesc, ci se multumesc sa mearga cu turma. Din pricina ca nu cugeta, rumega si tot rumega. Turma e guvernata de instinctul gregar.

Six years is a considerable time in human life, and if it be true that the witty remarks one makes at a dinner party seem peculiarly foolish the next morning, how much more does the enthusiasm of 1930 appear foolish in 1936.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization?

A nation's preoccupation with history is not infrequently an effort to obtain a passport for the future. Often it is a forged passport.

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement, not only with others but also with ourselves.

Aunque el ideal terrenal del socialismo y el comunismo se haya derrumbado, los problemas que este ideal intentaba resolver permanecen: se trata de la descarada utilización social del desmesurado poder del dinero, que muchas veces dirige el curso de los acontecimientos. Y si la lección global del siglo XX no produce una seria reflexión, el inmerso torbellino rojo puede repetirse de principio a fin. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, en New York Times 28 de noviembre de 1993

It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.

loneliness has its own needs!

we all go through changes in search of self!

Inside every pause lived a contemplation

Everyone is in an individual relationship, but perceives it as group effort. My relationship with you is not the same as your relationship with me. The eyes can never see their own face.

We disconnected. And I wondered if we had ever truly connected.

Jewell Stewark smiled at me from a billboard, the rain giving her face tears.

Wisdom was knowing what to do. Skill was the ability to do it.Virtue was doing it. When wisdom didn't subdue anger, anger destroyed everything.