Quotes About Reflection

It's often said we take offense most in what we see of ourselves in others.

Most of us move through life with little chance to learn much about ourselves. We know some things we like and some things we dislike, we have a few ideas about what makes us happy, and we die in ignorance regarding anything profound within ourselves.

Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.

It's difficult the first time you have to get close to kill another. You see their eyes, see the light in it go out. Even a troll's eyes have that light. I'd be worried if you didn't feel something after that. I don't like hunting with a man who's a killer without that feeling.

As my grandmother said, 'Sorry won't unbreak the eggs'. Just clean the mess and move on.

Pug turned to regard her in the warm glow. He had been married to Miranda for more than half his life now, yet he found her a constant mystery and occasionally a challenge. But at moments like this he was grateful she was close at hand.

Ljudi kažu da nas ?esto najviše vre?a deo sopstvenog lika u drugom ?oveku.

The order of the universe is like a gem with many facets, and we see only one, that which reflects the existence of our own world.

knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.

Os defeitos que vemos nos outros nunca parecem tão terríveis como os que vemos em nós...

for to change anything in your past would risk turning you into less than you are now.

He stood staring at the water as it rippled and calmed. It was the only thing Daylon could see that wasn't covered in death; all around him, the mud of the battlefield was awash in piss, shit, and blood, pieces of what had once been brave men, and the muck covered banners of fools.

But the real test of honor for a man is to live and learn to love himself.

It is said by some that the gods show us their bitter humor by molding us into what we hate most in others.

Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret.

The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice. For those who live centuries, it's a very important choice.

Last words and last thoughts are not invariably those most replete with human wisdom. If this seems to be the case, it is because unmemorable ones are not remembered.

Alors tu t'es bien amusée ? –Comme ça. –T'as vu le métro ? –Non. –Alors, qu'est-ce que t'as fait ? –J'ai vieilli

When you're young,' Harry said, 'you just see things. There's nothing much to say about them. You don't realize then all the life that's gone into it.

The mistake of all the religions is to look outside the world for explanations of the world, rather than rethinking the world itself, so that it offers up its own explanations for itself. The world itself must be self-explanatory.

Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.

And the freest of all is the philosopher who thinks so little of the ceaseless flow of time as to step out of it. This is why the philosopher often appears ridiculous in the practical affairs of life, because he or she has stepped out of the rush of time.

Now who knows whether Socrates actually undertook what sounds like a pretty lame attempt at becoming a poet in the last month of his life? I'm the mother of a professional poet, and I know what goes into the making of such a creature. You might as well try to become a mathematician or a cosmologist in the last thirty days of your life.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. (Oddly, philosophy departments have forgone turning this into an enrollment-boosting slogan.)