Quotes About Reflection

When you are old, at evening candlelit,Beside the fire bending to your wool,Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writThis praise for me when I was beautiful."

C'est le trait terrible du vieillissement : il vous donne bientôt la gaieté du coeur qui permet d'accepter comme allant de soi des retranchements sur les sens et sur le coeur, considérés auparavant comme de monstrueuses avaries.

Ho cominciato con l'aspettare le donne, e il denaro, bevendo. E poi all'improvviso mi sono accorto di aver consumato la mia vita ad attendere, e sono intossicato a morte

Il n'y a pas eu de jour dans ma vie, si plein et si heureux fût-il de la présence des êtres ou d'un être, et de mon adhésion riche et exubérante au monde immédiat, où je n'ai songé à la solitude, où je me sois arrangé pour lui faire la libation de quelques minutes, quand ca n'eût été que dans les cabinets, une cabine téléphonique, une salle de bains, un couloir où je m'attardais un instant plus qu'il ne convient à l'animal social.

Je garde de la considération pour le personnage que j'ai été à ce moment-là. J'aime ce gribouille délicat qui préfère sa petite mare personnelle à la grande panade collective, et qui entre les cent millions de balles qui vont dorénavant siffler et miauler autour de lui prétend d'abord en choisir une, comme un bijou dans un écrin.

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

For us, nature's final accomplishment is contemplation, becoming aware, and a way of living in harmony with nature.

From the point of view of the imminence of death, one thing counts, and one alone: to strive always to have the essential rules of life present in one's mind, and to keep placing oneself in the fundamental disposition of the philosopher, which consists essentially in controlling one's inner discourse, in doing only that which is of benefit to the human community, and in accepting the events brought to us by the course of the Nature of the All.

Se habla a sí mismo, pero tenemos la impresión de que se dirige a cada uno de entre nosotros.

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

It is easy to be inspired by history when you're living in a part of it and allow that to seep into your writing: having said that, a minimalist room with no distractions is often better; the most exciting visions should already be in your head.

My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

I always have to brace myself when I visit my parents. My mom often greets me with a slew of nonconstructive criticisms: 'Jimmy, why is your face so fat? Your clothes look homeless and your long hair makes you look like a girl.' After 30 years of this, my self-image is now a fat homeless lesbian.

Every form of theatre has something in common with a visit to the doctor. On the way out, one should always feel better than on the way in.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

I actually visit the temple every day but I genuinely don't understand the importance that people give to their birthdays or any special day, be it a festival or a birthday.

Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.

Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Landsend in Mumbai. It was my 100th visit recently, which means I have spent more than 400 days in that hotel, and that is a lot more than I have spent with my family.

When we were making 'Toy Story,' my grandmother was very ill, and she knew she was not going to make it. I went back to visit her, and there was a moment during that visit that I had to say goodbye, and I knew I'd never be seeing her again. I looked at her and knew that I was looking at her for the last time.

If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.