Quotes About Reflection

Pi?manl?klar?n? telafi etme ?ans?n olsayd?, baz? konularda farkl? davran?r m?yd?n?

When we take the external clutter away, we have to face the clutter inside ourselves.

She smiles at me. She clicks the top of her pen. Then clicks it again. Each one is a moment. The first click, the pause between the click, and the second click. The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here.

If one advances confidently," Thoreau had written in Walden, "in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." He'd also observed that part of this success was the product of being alone. "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.

When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.

Chaque livre écrit est le produit d'un esprit humain dans une disposition particulière. Additionnez tous les livres, et vous obtenez la somme totale de l'humanité. Chaque fois que je lisais un bon livre, j'avais l'impression de lire une sorte de carte au trésor, et le trésor vers lequel elle me menait était en fait moi-même.

Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

sometimes the only way to learn is to live.' 'Sounds hard.

Between life and death there is a library,' she said. 'And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try 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?' A

He joined his hands together and made a steeple of his index fingers, which he placed under his chin, as if he was Confucius contemplating a deep philosophical truth about the universe rather than the boss of a musical equipment shop dealing with a late employee.

If there is a sunset, stop and look at it. Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

In every human life there is a moment. A crisis. One that says, what I believe is wrong. It happens to everyone, the only difference being how that knowledge changes them.

and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

Het probleem van tumult in je hoofd is dat alles wat op korte termijn goed voelt, op de lange termijn slecht voelt. Je leidt jezelf af, terwijl je eigenlijk behoefte hebt aan zelfkennis.

Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.

Places are places and memories are memories.

and advised I take things 'one day at a time', as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her.

I suppose the way I understand my life is as a kind of Russian doll, with different versions inside other versions, each one enclosing the other, whereby the life before isn't seen from the outside but is still there.

Wat je over pijn leert als je ziek bent, kun je dan ook toepassen op betere tijden. Pijn is een kei van een leermeester.

Trató de imaginarse cómo habría sido aceptarse a sí misma completamente. Todos los errores que habían quedado en su cuerpo. Todos los sueños que no había cumplido y todos los dolores que había sentido. Todos los deseos y anhelos reprimidos

Robert Frost. 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – / I took the one less travelled by, / And that has made all the difference . . .