Quotes About Reflection

Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suffering or Poverty. So names are not just names: names have real meaning, and they tend to tell the world about the circumstances of your parents at the time that you were born.

The regrets I have are strong enough that I wouldn't share 'em. I think that you can't live without suffering some.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

I feel every profession suffers from a little bit of dissatisfaction from time to time. Even I do feel that way as far as my career is concerned.

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

It would be presumptuous to say writing a book would be a sufficient gesture, but if people were more preoccupied with the past, maybe the events that overwhelm us would be fewer.

Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.

Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.

When I was a child, I used to eat sugar Frosted Flakes with chocolate milk, but I digest, I mean digress.

I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future.

Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time.

Holding on to things from the past is the same as clinging to an image of yourself in the past. If you're the least bit interested in changing anything about yourself, I suggest you be brave and start letting things go.