Quotes About Reflection

Epitaph. Not next year, not the next one, Not the year after that. But ages From here, Clad in love stained sleeping bags, Dying with feet wrapped in endless Shirts and pillow cases, Crumbling with 99 flakes clutched Between thumb and palm, dripping Yellow cream from twig fingers, Basking our white haired chests on Green grassed parks under purple Skies. Laughing over coffee after Bath tubs of coffee have passed Through our guts. Huddled, lonely, Under heaped clothes, here lay us...

Someday When we are wiser When the world's older When we have learned I pray Someday we may yet Live To live and let live Someday Life will be fairer Need will be rarer Greed will not pay Godspeed This bright millennium On its way Let it come Someday

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

God is in the rain.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

The central statement of faith in Judaism is the Sh'ma, which reads: "Hear Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is One." Only in silence is it possible to hear.

WHY IS IT THAT when there is ice on the streets, everyone walks slowly and carefully out of fear of slipping physically, while in their daily lives, people are not afraid of slipping spiritually? —RABBI ISSER ZALMAN MELTZER (1870–1953)

Take time, be exact, unclutter the mind. —Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, the Alter of Kelm

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

It was not his habit to dwell on what might have been but what could never be.

The older he got, the more he appreciated the sublime pleasures of the life of the mind, to which he now sought to devote himself almost exclusively.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Ps. 139:23–24)? If you go on through life blindly confident but

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognises something about themselves or they don't — You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking, "That was nice...now where's the cab?

You cannot take credit for your blessings, but you can certainly commit to not f---ing them up.

Your choices have more consequences than your impulses.

When we choose things that are evil and stupid, then we pay the cost of lost opportunities to do something good—something wise and unselfish.

Hemingway said, 'As you get older, it is harder to have heroes.'

I suggested we name one of the children Silence," said Dion, "a greatly underrated virtue.

He didn't want to think about the past, present, or future.

He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself doesn't become a monster.

It almost feels like I've suffered in order to be able to see what I otherwise wouldn't.

If she's stupid enough to leave, then you have to be smart enough to let her go.