Quotes About Reflection

In order to help you remember that, here's a little ditty you can recite to yourself before you ease out the clutch: "He was right, dead right, as he sped along. But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong.

Every man has a cemetery inside him. You don't know how big yours is until you dig in it.

Heitor sipped his tea, a dainty counterpoint to the violent topic.

desert kept a still tongue, and when

He says, for example, that "the snowy Alps were visible in the distance from the camp, but no one was able to muster it within himself to give any thought to how beautiful they really are; this can only be done by one who is able to look at the world with the eyes of a man, not a slave." Majdanski

Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.

Reading (...) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

Reading is, by its nature, a strategy for displacement, for pulling back from the circumstances of the present and immersing in the textures of a different life.

Facebook, with its flow of useless particularity, makes it impossible to forget, thus impossible to remember.

It wasn't just escapism, he persuaded himself. Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different. Pieces of the puzzle can suddenly fall into place.

what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

Life often looks its best from a distance.

Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different.

Life often looks its best from a distance. He was yet to understand that.

I like stupid questions," Rimmer said. "They allow one to feel intelligent for once.

He had pored over old photographs,

opinions are there to be changed as we grow older and wiser". Mats

The doctor said that what matters is not that we believe in God; God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

Faria Kazi heard them and thought of

We're all nearly sick, aren't we?

Gunnar Ekelöf's poem "Waterlilies

Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different. Pieces of the puzzle can suddenly fall into place.

You could reach for him, and sometimes you would grab hold of him. But sometimes all you would grab hold of was a reflection of a reflection in a revolving door.

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?