Quotes About Reflection

How many psychologists does one know to whom it might be said: Physician, heal thyself?

Burnt corks they use mostly—though 'tis messy getting it off again. Miss Cynthia was a Negress once, and, oh, the trouble she had.

She paused for a moment, turning things over in her mind.

Well, you know, breakfast isn't always a chatty meal.

Even God cannot change the past.

Eu trebuie s? m? gândesc mereu la moartea mamei, ca s? nu m? ia prin surprindere.

Nu strig. Mi-am aruncat gura.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made silently.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

No trumpets sounds when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Det tog mig många år att inse vilken makt pappas tystnad hade utövat. Ja, mäns envisa tigande.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it has also become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it.

Había días en que las pesadillas lo perseguían, y por la mañana se levantaba y no recordaba nada. Ya había aprendido que un sueño que se olvida por la mañana no desaparece, se esconde y escarba en secreto, y que hay sueños olvidados que salen a la superficie en mitad del día.

Tutti cercavano di nascondere al nonno le sue condizioni e la situazione che ci circondava. Il nonno sapeva tutto, ma non permetteva che la confusione ed il caos lo sommergessero. Parlava della morte come usava parlare prima di ogni lngo viaggio. (...) Andavo a trovarlo una volta al giorno. (...) Una volta mi raccontò una parabola che non riuscii a capire; lui parve accorgersene e disse: "Non fa niente, l'importante è amare questa mattinata".

How wonderful to simply do things instead of wondering if they are worth doing or discussing whether to do them or being told not to do them or listening to somebody else describe doing them.

I hardly trust myself to write about him. I do not know what I should write about him.

a trecut atata timp de cand nu i-a mai dat ascultare inimii ascultare inimii sale, ca aceasta a amutit.

What if you know yourself too well? What if you do not like what you know?

She needs to leave him alone when he wants to be left alone. But then, do they meet in order for him to be left alone? Do they take trains and aeroplanes and drive for hours so that he should be left alone? If what he wants is to be left alone, then why do they meet at all? Everybody worries so about separation, but the problem is not the separations; it is how they are when they're together

Keep watch over your mouth, lest it bring you to grief.

He reveals and observes Himself on the mirror of the name Allah, yet at the same time He declares: "Verily, Allah (in terms of His Absolute Essence) is Ghani from (being conditioned and limited by) the worlds (individualized and materialized compositions of His Names)." (Quran 29:06) ALLAH is Pre-eternal and Post-eternal (Baqi).

Merciful Father.... I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only, to live the next few minutes well. For all we ought to have thought and have not thought... All we ought to have said and have not said. All we ought to have done and have not done. I pray thee, God for forgiveness.