Quotes About Reflection

The river flowed both ways.

Only when something ends can we understand what it has meant. In

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

As the American historian John Lewis Gaddis put it, it is like looking in a rearview mirror: if you only look back, you will land in the ditch, but it helps to know where you have come from and who else is on the road.

The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.

Not that it will be easy for you," Miryam continued. "But for the moment - look - it's a wonderful, mysterious thing to be a girl." And, looking at her reflection, Laura thought this might be true.

È inutile indagare le occasioni mancate. Non sai mai se ti sei salvato dalla morte, o ti sei perso la vera vita.

Vane diventano le parole ripetute troppe volte.

Sa zadovoljstvom mislim na Andri?a...i kada bih mogao da kažem u samo jednoj re?i šta me to tera da pobegnem iz Bosne, rekao bih ti: mržnja.

Il fango fermo della vita ora è polvere che vola verso di me.

Spesso non ci accorgiamo di quello che abbiamo, non siamo grati alla vita.

Alone all day, Juniper would remember the animals and places he loved, and hold them in his own heart before the great Heart that made them. He was learning to find quietness inside himself. He was learning to pray.

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.

Every now and then you get hit with hard times or good— who's to say? But then there are these tiny times in between when you look up at the tops of trees swaying or you sit don to a fine meal with a new family or you wake up alone and by the end of the day, you got yourself your first friend.

What's to be done with all that you know and see? What do you do with so much meanness in this sorrowful world?

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.