Quotes About Reflection

Sometimes you have to look into every possibility, even the dumb ones.

Why does it look like a person?" I said, "I ask myself that sometimes." Over the comm loudspeaker, Dr. Ratthi said, "It is a person!" In the background, I heard Overse whisper, "Ratthi, get off the comm!

For my entire existence, at least the parts I could remember, I had done nothing but accept the inevitable. I was tired of it.

And even to me, that sounded like a stupid thing to do.

I probably should have been doing that from the beginning, but you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.

I'm apparently an idiot, but not that big an idiot.)

Moon didn't find any of this very encouraging

While being eaten would end all his problems, he wasn't quite ready for so final a solution.

The horrific emotional consequences of the worst mistake of his life aside, Kai had an idea.

If I was wrong, I'd probably be dead, and that was bad enough. Being stupid and dead would just be that much worse.

If I got angry at myself for being angry I would be angry constantly and I wouldn't have time to think about anything else.

That was stupid." Everything was clear, sharp. Note to self, never, ever jump into a gunship with a bot pilot and fight off a construct Attacker code again. You almost deleted yourself, Murderbot

I'll try to be more accurate. I was indifferent, and vaguely annoyed. Do you believe that?

I wanted to keep me the way I was.

I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

It would never stop being novel to be around a bunch of humans in a relatively confined space and be able to close a door between me and them and not have to care what they were doing.

It is a bittersweet joy, but real nonetheless—the way our lost loves are forever in our hearts and minds. They are, in fact, constant to our consciousness in a way they couldn't be when they were alive, because then we depended on their comings and goings—the highs and lows of their being with us, the vagaries of presence and convenience. But

So maybe the experience of loss not only helps clarify what is important to us, but also helps us know where we are and the direction in which we want to go. In

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.

Sometimes endings are just opportunities.

Who you are is not your name or your family. Who you are is more essential than that; it comes from God. And what you make of yourself, that is what you give back to God.

Shame brings you down. But true humility will only lift you higher.

There will be another job, but you will never have another family. Someday you're going to be lying on your deathbed and you aren't going to be saying, "Gosh, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.

You ever notice something about humans? You ask them, if they could go back and live any day over again, what would they do? It's always to go back and fix something, as if they know precisely the moment when everything went wrong.