Quotes About Reflection

Being aware that everything that could possibly happen happened to her somewhere, in some life, kind of absolved her a little from decisions.

what is the point of living when you have no one to live for?

I regret not having a gap year after university.

Edith Wharton was the wisest person ever on lineliness. She believed the cure for it wasn't always to have company, but to find a way to be happy with your owwn company.

I regret my financial mismanagement.

Ik heb nooit een gezelliger kameraad gevonden dan de eenzaamheid. (Thoreau)

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate term

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing - Socrates

Maar als je op zoek bent naar de zin van het leven zul je nooit leven,' zei hij wijs. (Camus)

It didn't really matter how many years or decades or centuries had passed, because you were always living within the parameters of your personality. No expanse of time or place could change that. You could never escape yourself.

I stared at myself in the mirror. I stared at my face until it was not my face. I went back to the table and sat down and I did not say how I was feeling to anyone. To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling.

And besides, she knew her regrets. Regrets don't leave. They weren't mosquito bites. They itch for ever.

Travel makes one modest," said Gustave Flaubert. "You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." Such perspective can be strangely liberating.

It was one of the reasons why I preferred the library to the playing field. It

I think it is easy to imagine there are easier paths,' she said, realising something for the first time. 'But maybe there are no easy paths. There are just paths. In one life, I might be married. In another, I might be working in a shop. I might have said yes to this cute guy who asked me out for a coffee. In another I might be researching

A veces la única manera de aprender es vivir.

It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.

Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

Circle. In another, I might be an Olympic swimming champion. Who knows? Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.

Interessant dat het leven soms een heel nieuw perspectief kreeg als je maar lang genoeg wachtte omdat te zien, peinsde ze.

Two mirrors, opposite and facing each other at perfectly parallel angles, viewing themselves through the other, the view as deep as infinity. Yes, that was what love was for. (I may not have understood marriage, but I understood love, I was sure of it.)

another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

Za ljudi, ko radi berejo, velja, da naj bi bili osamljeni, meni pa so knjige pomenile pot iz osamljenosti. ?e si takšne vrste, da preve? razmišljaš o stvareh, ni ni?esar samotnejšega, kakor ?e si obkrožen z množico ljudi na drugi valovni dolžini.

Illness has a lot to teach wellness.