Quotes About Reflection

The coronavirus pandemic is going to cause immense pain and suffering. But it will force us to reconsider who we are and what we value, and, in the long run, it could help us rediscover the better version of ourselves.

To me, this passage is essentially the Chinese equivalent of the Socratic claim that the unexamined life is not worth living. It has exactly the same rhetorical assertiveness and moral severity: the unexamined life is not just less good; it's useless.

Narrative is the frame upon which we hang selected swaths of experience in order to construct a shelter of meaning.

People who think a lot are more prone to mania than people who do not think a lot. That intelligent, creative, and thoughtful people are the ones more regularly afflicted by mania is beyond question.

A smart person ought to be smart enough to see clearly the limitations of his species.

And what are you thinking of doing now?' my helpmeet and companion in life's race asked me when we were back on the road.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.

I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you`re proud of, and if you find that you`re not, I hope you find the strength to start all over again.

I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Every step appears as the unavoidable consequence of the preceding one," Einstein said. "In the end, there beckons more and more clearly general annihilation.

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.

Uno no tiene por qué pedir disculpas si quiere ser el dueño de su propia alma... para bien o para mal. Cuando ya todo se ha dicho y hecho, es todo cuanto queda.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.

Nothing human was worth denying. Even if it was unspeakably ugly, we could learn from it, couldn't we? Or could we? I never questioned that at all.