Quotes About Reflection

sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves.

the point of life is to give yourself to yourself.

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all" ? Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Letters to a Young Poet—Rainer Maria Rilke Poems—Emily Dickinson Henry David Thoreau's journal When Things Fall Apart—Pema Chödrön The House at Pooh Corner—A. A. Milne Bird by Bird—Anne Lamott Meditations—Marcus Aurelius Tao Te Ching—Laozi Serious Concerns—Wendy Cope Dream Work—Mary Oliver

Life is not a ladder to climb a puzzle to solve a key to find a destination to reach a problem to fix

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 longitude and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.

No. The Book of Regrets is getting lighter. There's a lot of white space in there now . . . It seems that you have spent all your life saying things that you aren't really thinking. This is one of your barriers.' 'Barriers?

In quel momento pensò a come sarebbe stato accettarsi completamente. Ogni singolo errore. Ogni singola cicatrice sul suo corpo. Ogni singolo sogno mai realizzato, ogni singolo dolore che aveva provato.

LIFE IS HARD. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard. The way people seem to cope is by not thinking about it too much. But some people are not going to be able to do that.

Nora stared down at the small mole on her left hand. That mole had been through everything she'd been through. And it just stayed there, not caring. Just being a mole.

When she stopped playing, she looked thoughtful for a moment and said something like, 'I sometimes want to stop time. I sometimes want, in a happy moment, for a church bell never to ring again. I want not to ever have to go to the market again. I want for the starlings to stop flying in the sky. . . . But we are all at the mercy of time. We are all the strings, aren't we?

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate word and found it. 'A load of bullshit .

Well, what would you say if I said that I have visited my other lives, and I think I have chosen this one?' 'I would think you were insane. But I'd still like you.' 'Well, I have. I have had many lives.' He smiled. 'Great. Is there one where you kiss me again?' 'There is one where you buried my dead cat.' He laughed. 'That's so cool, Nor. The thing I like about you is that you always make me feel normal' And that was it.

those ever-darkening stairs of the mind

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You got me.

No infravalores nunca la gran importancia de las cosas pequeñas. No lo olvides nunca»

The quiet made her realise how much noise there was elsewhere in the world. Here, noise had meaning.

I need 'closure' as people say these days. Though you can never close the past. The most you can do with it is accept it.

But writing down darkness didn't make me feel dark. I already felt dark. Writing things down brought that inner darkness into external light.

She took a deep breath, as if the question were something she had to swim under.

Dar e mereu bine sa stim ce minunate ar parea atatea lucruri din viata noastra daca ar deveni rare.

Compare my life to the lives of other people.

We are shaped more by our failures than our successes (paraphrase)

But these are other lives. Other variants of me. Not me me.' 'Yes, but while you are experiencing them, it is you who has to pay the consequences.