Quotes About Reflection

In the beginning of life, we're on fire and want to change the world. Yet as we get older, we realize how difficult that is, so we think that if we can have a positive influence on those around us, we'll have lived a worthwhile life. As we get older still, we understand that we can change no one, and simply look for the courage to change ourselves.

He had managed to lock away everything he didn't want to remember... and the memories returned as well.

Now, some people will bemoan this fact, wag their fingers in your direction, and tell you sternly that you should live every minute of your life as though it were your last, which only goes to show that some people would spend their final ten minutes giving other people dumb advice. The

There are many good things about getting older, but no one knows what they are.

My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams," Mr. Plumbean said. - The Big Orange Splot

A world full of people who want to know what you will be, what is your skill and what is your purpose. In the north, if a man had come and said "What will you be? What will you do?" I would have laughed at this kind of person that lives all the time in the future.

At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever.

To be alive is to have a story to tell.

It is, indeed, in this light that Capote's famous characterization of In Cold Blood as "a reflection on American life—this collision between the desperate, ruthless, wandering, savage part of American life, and the other, which is insular and safe," takes on its proper meaning.T

Plus il m´est donné de me pencher sur les difficultés d´un grand nombre de personnes, plus il m´apparaît clairement que chacun de nous est comparable à une gigantesque bibliothèque. Chaque chapitre d´un seul de ses livres serait alors semblable à une vie entière tandis que chacune des pages du chapitre en question comprendrait des post-scriptum renvoyant à d´autres chapitres, à d´autres livres, à l´infini.

Today I will just observe and listen." • "Today I will trust that everything will work out well." • "Today I will accept things as they are." • "Today I will be aware of the beauty all around me." I recommend affirmations

O importante não é saber como aconteceu, mas, sim, sentir que o que aconteceu foi um evento importante. Esse evento se chama consciência. Tomar consciência foi a grande revolução que Rairu proporcionou às pessoas que estavam no mundo de baixo. Elas não sabiam que havia outra maneira de viver. Quando desejaram partir em busca desse novo mundo, puseram-se a caminho, e muitos conseguiram chegar até em cima, porém, outros não quiseram...

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

What keeps me going when I think of ex-friends is that we're all really going through several lifetimes, often at the same time, all with different people; that we draw towards and push away from each other when we have to, like fucking quarks and particles, and sometimes that drawing and the pushing heals, and sometimes it just hurts.

In short, to empty the mind means 'to polish the mirror', thereby permitting clear reflections of external phenomena and spontaneous insights into the true nature of reality.

When the mind is clear and calm, the images it reflects are real and the knowledge it gathers is true. When the mind is agitated and confused, it's like throwing a stone into a still pond, or holding a camera with a shaky hand: the images it reflects are distorted and do not accord with reality.

Eu teria voltado para casa, se soubesse onde ficava. Mas como eu não tinha mais certeza sobre coisa nenhuma, resolvi ficar parado no mesmo lugar para ver se minha casa acabava me encontrando.

Que des livres puissent à ce point bouleverser notre conscience et laisser le monde aller au pire, voilà de quoi rester muet.

El tiempo de leer, como el tiempo de amar, dilatan el tiempo de vivir.

Quels pédagogues nous étions, quand nous n'avions pas le souci de la pédagogie !

Parfois, c'est l'humilité qui commande notre silence. Pas la glorieuse humilité des analystes professionnels, mais la conscience intime, solitaire, presque douloureuse, que cette lecture-ci, que cet auteur-là, viennent, comme on dit, de « changer ma vie » !

Que unos libros puedan alterar hasta tal punto nuestra conciencia y dejar que el mundo siga de mal en peor, es algo que deja sin palabras.

Café ? Le bureau du divisionnaire Coudrier est un vieux souvenir qui n'a pas changé.

la grammaire est le premier outil de la pensée organisée et (...) la fameuse analyse logique (...) ajuste les mouvements de notre réflexion, laquelle se trouve aiguisée par le bon usage des fameuses propositions subordonnées.