Quotes About Reflection

Love last one single perfect moment; the rest is merely reminiscence of what has already happened, but the single moment can be enough to make sense of more than one life.

Improvvisamente sentì la gola arsa e la propria solitudine, senza che le due cose avessero un legame reciproco.

some trace and leaves some trace of himself—or herself—at any location visited. So

We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It's based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us.

There is a Zion which is a place deep inside

Cuando buscas la belleza en el universo, comienzas también a ver tu propia belleza.

El dolor es mejor maestro que el placer.

La vida hay que vivirla mirando hacia el futuro, pero solo se entiende si tenemos en cuenta nuestro pasado.

It's strange, you know. You can be friendly with people year after year, fish with them on the weekends, attend parties and cookouts, and then one day the reason you're drawn together is gone—and they're gone too. It's strange—and sad.

I finished my 20s with a PhD in fusion energy, and I discovered I was useless.

Ma ancora una volta si ripete che l'unico passato reale è quello che perdura nella memoria e che l'unica perdurabile memoria è la scrittura. [...] Forse la letteratura, forse la mia letteratura, rettifica, non svolge altra missione che quella di perfezionare il passato affinché l'avvenire si riprometta di non essere da meno (196).

God has a funny way of reminding us we're human. [About his impromptu water break during his delivery of the GOP rebuttal to President Barack Obama's State of the Union on February 12, 2013]

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.

Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?