Quotes About Reflection

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

ÄŒlovÄ›k se dívá tam, kam jde a kde je, a v?bec tomu nerozumí. Pak se ale oto?í, podívá se, kde už byl, a za?ne se mu vynoÃ…â"¢ovat jistý vzorec. A pokud ten vzorec promítne do budoucna, m?že pak ob?as na nÄ›co zajímavého pÃ…â"¢ijít.

there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed.

What sort of future is coming up from behind I don't really know. But the past, spread out ahead, dominates everything in sight.

The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of our sense of mystery, not to cure us of our sense of mystery. The purpose of science is to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate that mystery. To always use it in a context where we are helping people in trying to resist the forces of ideology that we are all familiar with.

Judgments are thoughts, and thoughts are living, moving energy. Because energy attracts like energy, judgment attracts judgmental people. The world is a mirror in which we glimpse ourselves. If there are judgmental people around us, it may be that life is asking us to examine our own willingness or tendency to judge.

these words, the angel conveyed a primary purpose of life challenges: to show us how our thoughts and feelings create our reality. Challenges are mirrors that reflect to us our feelings about ourselves. In that sense, they are gifts. Wisdom allows us to recognize them as such.

We can choose to feel angry, hurt, and burdened, or we can recognize that the experience, though painful, is a magnificent opportunity for enhanced self-understanding.

I'm getting older everyday, you know. I'm not like a fine wine that just gets better with age. I'm more like a good strong cheese. I can only be aged so long before I start to stink.

Rememberatorium)

If I am just as stupid when I am twenty as I was when I was two, if I am just as stupid when I am a hundred as I was when I was fifty, then I am not doing my job. I am occupying space and time to no purpose, and I might just as well have been a lump of rock.

Know this, and know it well: time is never wasted. Wherever we go, whatever we do, everything is an aspect of education. Even when we don't immediately grasp the lesson.

To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately.

That is no country for old men, he thought.

We live in other people. And when one of our friends dies, then that part of us that has lived in him dies, too.

For Harlan, to remind him of open windows, the currents of the Delaware River, quarters with two heads, and other pitfalls.

We make only a small blaze, and then we go out; but in his springtime and his summer he had burned brightly enough, and he did not feel he had earned this sullen, joyless autumn.

Sometimes one does not learn the value of things until they are lost.

But our lives are the reasons why we want to live another time

If only I'd thought of the right words I would have held onto your heart. If only I'd thought of the right words I wouldn't be breaking apart, all my pictures of you.

Adrina, it is time you mended your own soul. Cry, cry until there are no more tears in you.

They get up every day and go work for money, not taking the time to ask the question, 'Is there another way?

We only memorize historical dates and names, not the lesson.

Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.