Quotes About Reflection

I libri si dividono in due categorie: i libri per adesso e i libri per sempre.

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.

We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense.

you never will love art well, till you love what she mirrors better

Just because we are something better than birds or bees, our buildings must confess that we have not reached the perfection we can imagine, and can not rest in the condition we have attained. If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded either ourselves or our work.

Matters of any consequence are three-sided, or four-sided, or polygonal; and the trotting round a polygon is severe work for people any way stiff in their opinions. For myself, I am never satisfied that I have handled a subject properly till I have contradicted myself at least three times.

Reading is precisely a conversation with men who are both wiser and more interesting than those we might have occasion to meet ourselves. –

A chama da vida arde por um tempo e então se apaga. As sepulturas aguardam pacientemente a hora de serem ocupadas. A morte é o fim de toda a vida. Viver é se remexer constantemente em um túmulo. As coisas vivem e morrem. Às vezes vivem bem, e às vezes mal, mas sempre morrem, e a morte é aquilo que reduz todas as coisas ao menor denominador comum.

But the laughter was like a water bug on a pond, skating across the surface of his mind. He was amused and he laughed, but nothing was deeply funny; life was simply stupid most of the time.

They didn't talk for a while. Johnson popped the top on the second beer, took a long swig, then tossed the nearly full can over his shoulder and down the hill. "Good-bye, old friend," he said. "I'll believe it a year from now," Virgil said. Johnson: "Say, this whole stop-drinking thing . . . it doesn't include margaritas, does it?" —

stopped by the door

satellite view. "They could

Sunday morning, coming down.

death. On impulse, she picked up the remote

Scottsdale, Arizona, who

THEY SAT LOOKING at the pictures for a few seconds, then Sloan said

looking back at him

He called St. Vincent back and asked if he

the points of view of a lot of people I'd opposed at the start. That the Vietnam War was a waste

at the end of a five-year round of silliness, decided he didn't want to be a four-time loser, so he stopped getting married

for a few moments, and he went inside. Halfway down the hall and around a corner, he

Well, you gotta keep up," Kidd said. He paused, looked up at the sky, then said, "You know, I take that back. Really, maybe you don't need to keep up. Maybe keeping up is for idiots.

said. "You caught your breath from

but you ask anybody who's been to jail, and they'll tell you—a little is way, way better than a lot. Way better.