Quotes About Reflection

she had read once that the recovery time from a romantic relationship is equal to the life span of the relationship itself.

la vida dura lo que se tarda en pasar junto a una ventana.

I like the darkness. It clarifies my thinking. – Gabriel Allon

My business is hurting, too. Everyone on the street is in trouble. I never thought I would say this, but the world was a much better place when the Americans were still rich.

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who has two women loses his soul. But he who has two homes loses his mind.

life is just as long as the time it takes to pass by a window.

Boswell spent much of the evening lamenting his country's dreadful politics. Isherwood listened attentively. Inwardly, however, he wondered why it was that enlightened Americans always found it necessary to bash their country whenever they set foot in the mother ship. "I'm

Shamron nodded in agreement. Age had given him the ability to at least see his own shortcomings, even if it had robbed him of the time needed to remedy them.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

I suppose I needed to share it with her. I suppose I needed someone to forgive me.

Remind yourself that every second spent scrolling through social media is one you will never get back.

Invent a past for the present.

Clouds and buttercups exist in poetry, but they are there only because storms and flowers populate the world too.

I sat still, my head down, staring at a spot between the numbered tiles. I could feel his inquisitive brown eyes on me. Finally, I shrugged and said, 'I don't know.

Nothing should be of higher value to the reflective Christian in difficult circumstances than an unqualified desire to see truth triumph. One should wish passionately that it prevail, should love it more than one's own prestige or sense of security.

It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.

Your legacy is the fragrance of your life that remains when you yourself are not present.

You are your stories. You are the product of all the stories you have heard and lived—and of many that you have never heard. They have shaped how you see yourself, the world, and your place in it.

We don't just treasure our memories; we are our memories

most people think they will regret foolish actions more than foolish inactions.

in the long run, people of every age and in every walk of life seem to regret not having done things much more than they regret things they did

uno viaja siempre con el niño que fue.

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