Quotes About Reflection

Life's too short to live in the past, Amelia. Let him have his ghosts." *

Sometimes I wonder if we can ever really overcome the past. It's what makes us who we are. One small thing done differently and we become someone else. It's like the butterfly effect. One moment can change history. One decision can change everything.

We have always believed it good to leave a place before it leaves you.

Important as history is, reasoning has to go beyond the past.

Bengali poem by Ram Mohun Roy which bears on the subject matter of this essay.* Roy explains what is really dreadful about death: Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be. Others will go on speaking, and you will not be able to argue back.

Sip Someone else's logic then spit it out

I cast out the crime of me; my casualty. Silence, you must leave. Sadness, go. Surrender, shame. Cruelty, quiet now.

I watch and try not to think. Everything is a film: a fly on the windshield trying to get in, a delivery truck parked in front of whatever to deliver something I will never savor, a plane carrying flesh messages across the sky. The movie is wonderful to watch when I'm not in it.

In the mirror I see only the time-lapsed weather patterns of 1964.

It was like that.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.

Your present is responsible for each and every minute of your past and future

Your present is responsible of each and every minute of your past and future

I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)

Old age is the verdict of life.