Quotes About Reflection

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Solitude is bearable only with God

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false, dangerous.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

Fiecare duce, în noapte, o amintire a lui.

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.

He swam and he wept.

Lo so come ti senti. È come essere dietro un vetro, non puoi toccare niente di quello che vedi. Ho passato tre quarti della mia vita chiuso fuori, finché ho capito che l'unico modo è romperlo. E se hai paura di farti male, prova a immaginarti di essere già vecchio e quasi morto, pieno di rimpianti.

Quando abbiamo finito sono andato a fare una passeggiata da solo, fino alla collina che anni prima in un giorno di neve io e Guido avevamo risalito per contemplare il passaggio. Ho cercato il punto preciso in cui ci eravamo fermati e ho guardato in basso come avevamo fatto allora, ed era strano vedere una casa sola dove ce n'erano state due.

Magari uno rimpiange di aver perso qualcosa, e l'ha perso solo per trovare qualcosa di meglio.

Lascia qui il rumore del mondo, per tornare al suono dei tuoi pensieri.

Non che abbia raggiunto una qualche forma di distacco filosofico: le basta tirare fuori il cellulare dallo zainetto e rileggere per l'ennesima volta gli ultimi tre messaggi di Seamus per avere la prova che non è così.

Non c'è niente di inspiegabile in quello che sentiamo o facciamo, davvero; è solo che a volte le spiegazioni ci causano imbarazzo, e troviamo più conveniente non ricercarle con troppa insistenza.

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

Death is not a merciful conclusion but a border crossing into a new land that could be more beautiful and majestic than the tallest mansion. Faith, courage, and hope are the characteristics that create happiness. They will stand as remembered monuments for all those left around the bed, and they are the qualities I will strive to obtain. —From the journal of Cale Shaffer, dated September 7, 1992, written when he was eighteen years old

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care.

Dance is a place I go to know myself and the world experientially and intellectually.

I know they say that's the way the cookie crumbles and all. But you can't help but wonder why there's any cookie-crumbling going on in the first place.

Whenever I feel like this, I am gentle with myself, pretend like I'm someone else, someone good. I walk on eggshells around myself, like I'm some fragile piece of porcelain you have to place quietly, deliberately back on the shelf.