Quotes About Reflection

Sólo tú estás. Sólo tu cuentas. Lo demás es un juguete que hay que despedazar porque nos hace daño estar jugando con él a eso de estar sacrificando nuestro mejor tiempo a intereses que no son ni pueden ser nuestros.

He was used to seeing some part of him die every day. He watched the leaves falling from the Paradise tree. They all follow the same road. They all go away.

Y que si yo escuchaba solamente el silencio, era porque aún no estaba acostumbrado al silencio; tal vez porque mi cabeza venía llena de ruidos y de voces.

Salió fuera y miró el cielo. Llovían estrellas. Lamentó aquello porque hubiera querido ver un cielo quieto. Oyó el canto de los gallos. Sintió la envoltura de la noche cubriendo la tierra. La tierra, "este valle de lágrimas".

I watched the trickles glinting in the lightning flashes, and every breath I breathed, I sighed. And every thought I thought was of you, Susana.

La??m çukurunun ba??na oturmuÅŸ, kurbaÄŸalar?n ç?kmas?n? bekliyorum.

Este mundo, que lo aprieta a uno por todos lados, que va vaciando puños de nuestro polvo aquí y allá, deshaciéndonos en pedazos como si rociara la tierra con nuestra sangre. ¿Qué hemos hecho? ¿Por qué se nos ha podrido el alma?

yo comienzo a sentir como si no hubiéramos llegado a ninguna parte, que estamos aquí de paso, para descansar, y que luego seguiremos caminando.

Hasta que al fin logré torcer la cabeza y ver hacia allá, donde la estrella de la tarde se había juntado con la luna.

Voy a dormir llevándome al sueño estos pensamientos. Dicen que los pensamientos de los sueños van derechito al Cielo. Ojalá que los míos alcancen esa altura.

The day you went away I knew I would never see you again. You were stained red by the late afternoon sun, by the dusk filling the sky with blood. You were smiling. You had often said of the town you were leaving behind, "I like it because of you; but I hate everything else about it - even having been born here." I thought, she will never come back; I will never see her again.

Me han golpeado, sabes, me han dado duros golpes en eso que le llaman sentimiento. No sé quién; pero si sé que a veces, cuando me examino el alma, la siento un poco quebrada

If I've learned anything—anything—getting older, it's the value of moment-to-moment enjoyment.

Amy: I still think that all the time. It's not that I feel like what I'm doing is so amazing, but it's pretty good compared to what other people are doing.

And since leaving, what has been the best part of not working that busy schedule? David: It used to be really fatiguing, the fact of doing it every day. Now when I do something, I think, Wow, this would be great if I could do something like this once a month. You still get the little jolt, and the hope of self-esteem, but you're not in the makeup chair every day

Doubt is something that should be entertained privately.

Humans aren't meant to look back. Or else we'd be able to turn our heads in a 180, just like an owl.

Amy looked up at him. Their faces were very close. She remembered when those dark expressive eyes would make her quiver inside, when being this close would make her blush and stammer. Not anymore, though.

One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.

We push away the bad memories, Irina said. Bleak sadness deadened her voice. We tell ourselves is better not to remember. It is not better. Better to remember everything, even pain.

Not for him to accept the decrepitude of old human age.

Had he really lost his childhood? Was that what the Clue hunt had done?

Aren't our problems so small when we look at something big, like the sky?

Nancy Mairs, in Remembering the Bone House