Quotes About Reflection

Hiljadu puta se pokaješ za ono što kažeš, rijetko za ono što pre?utiš, znao sam za tu mudrost kad mi nije bila potrebna.

Nikakva traga od njega nema više na svijetu. Sve što je ostalo to je u meni.

vedra ni zbog ?ega, misao ni o ?emu...

Usamljenost ra?a misao, misao nezadovoljstvo, nezadovoljstvo pobunu.

Zašto se smatra da su knjige pametne ako su gorke?

Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back.

I know they're not like that now. If you asked me what happened between them," she said finally, "I don't know if I could tell you. But of course, nobody asked me." Her voice dropped low now, and she turned to look for the bus. "Your mother and father are both dreamers," she said, her back still turned. "That's what brought them together, and that's what's tearing them down. You'll always have to wake up at some point. And if you not ready for woke-up love, it'll break your heart.

As she drifted back up to Harlem alone on the bus, she did not think about what RayShawn had said, how he had looked, what she had felt. She erased the details from her memory as the streets scrolled by beyond the window. Block by block, she planned a translation of herself.

She wondered how much of life would feel this way—shock without the grace of surprise.

Be careful of whose advice and what advice you buy, even if it is for free, my advice included.

Choose your career carefully. You build your career and your career builds you.

Nothing is worth your peace of mind, not even your own ego.

This is a matter between herself and God.

She said that the issues were no longer so important to her and it was life itself that counted most of all.

In the poem, there is always that present moment which is terribly important through which memory works.

But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't. Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world

But really, the term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.

I'm sorry, Heather, but everything was not just fine before I got here. You know how I know that? Because you're dead. Okay? You are dead. Dead people don't have lockers, or best friends, or boyfriends. You know why? Because they're dead.-Suze Simon

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. —Friedrich Nietzsche

It was lonely being mad at people.

That's what friends do–they remind you of who you are underneath all the stuff people believe about you, all the stuff you believe about yourself.

Sometimes the biggest heartbreak of all is letting go of the time before you knew things could ever be broken.

Maybe he's lonely, she said, and I just looked at her wondering if she expected me to open a Home for the Socially Challenged or what. Then she started giggling and I had the feeling we were thinking the same thing, namely, some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.