Quotes About Reflection

El verdadero sentido de la educación no es la acumulación de conocimientos, sino el enseñar a pensar. La libertad que toma conciencia.

Incierto es, en verdad, lo porvenir. ¿Quién sabe lo que va a pasar? Pero incierto es también lo pretérito, ¿quién sabe lo que ha pasado?   ANTONIO MACHADO Juan de Mairena

Thanks, Pepe. You've put an extra night into my life. I would have spent it just sleeping like an ox, but I've lived it instead. I'm grateful.

El placer de comer] es un placer que hay que descubrir a los treinta años. Es la edad en que el ser humano deja de ser un imbécil y a cambio paga el precio de empezar a envejecer.

Leggere è un vizio solitario e innocente

Past, present, future: where are you?

Life without meaning is empty, but meaning is something you must give your own life. It is not for anyone else to tell you what your life is about. Take time to explore and define your life's purpose.

Me fui dando cuenta de que soñar es como caminar entre voces que flotan y pasos que resuenan. Como caminar por una ciudad que conociste y has olvidado. A veces hay esquinas donde se puede encontrar lo que has perdido. A veces algo muy lindo, otras veces algo que es mejor no recordar.

Para compreenderes o meu amor, deves começar a amar-te a ti mesmo.

El silencio es necesario para aprender cosas sobre uno mismo.

Te dan sabiduría los libros, porque retratan el alma de las personas, te ayudan a pensar, a reflexionar a ver la vida desde distintos puntos de vista, a darte cuenta de tus fallos, a descubir tus propios sentimientos, a buscar tu camino...

Es difícil librarte de tu pasado.

Fools never learn from their mistakes; Smart people learn from their mistakes; Wise people learn from other people's mistakes.

the mention of age is only a reference point in the observation of the self.

Las situaciones de crisis favorecen, en el plano intelectual, este tipo de cuestionamiento: el sentido de la existencia individual depende en primer lugar del modo en que nos relacionamos con el otro.

The writing of autobiography or memoir is comparable to the effect of time on ruins: it works by means of subtraction and selection.

Could I but end my days in this charming isle, without evermore stirring from it, or seeing a single inhabitant of the continent, who could remind me of all those calamities which have for so many years united to overwhelm me!…

despite the wounds from which he still suffers, the author of Reveries displays a remarkable serenity here; it is the calm after the storm, the evening glow, the feeling perhaps that despite everything, something was accomplished.

thus frame the evocation of a nonlinear time in which the after can be richer and more precise than the before, a time that remains in the face of time that passes, a time that provides pleasure and happiness.

to fix oneself in time

Are time and patience still virtues?

something that locates them at a distance from aging and the passing time:

We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive.

Witness the diversity of an unpredictable self that seems to repeat and reproduce itself exactly but that can also take me by surprise, outstrip and escape me.