Quotes About Reflection

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.

I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break.

I man is a prisoner of only his own mind.

when we have cultivated a healthy space within, we can hear, see and feel our intuition more clearly.

The inability to access our intuition is primarily caused by the excess of clutter in our minds and in our lifestyles.

Allow there to be space inside so that you can hear the messages clearly.

Sit in silence and the world is yours.

a long time ago. His father often met him on trips out here, but not this year. Cancer made sure of that. The last thing he ever told Bishop was that Bishop was

Aging Poem I can live with my arthritis, And my dentures fit me fine. I can see with my bifocals, But I sure do miss my mind.

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern, but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.

Sometimes you go so far in your life, you can't get back though you know it's not really your life.

Sometimes we know people who are too wonderful for words. I am not one of them. Or you, for that matter, as you well know.

There's no bigger wake-up call on the planet than losing a playoff series to the Knicks.

Before they can know what they need, they need to know who they are. This is one of Belichick's core philosophies, and it is why he was sitting in this Gillette Stadium room with a binder, notebook, pens, and pages of football statistics.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do when you're down there."? – George Burns

16. Love will tear us apart (Joy Division) 15. Ain't no sunshine (Bill Withers) 14. Sound of silence (Simon and Garfunkel) 13. My way (Frank Sinatra) 12. All by myself (Eric Carmen) 11. Yesterday (The Beatles) 10. Without you (Harry Nilsson) 9. Seasons in the sun (Terry Jacks) 8. Fix You (Coldplay) 7. My heart will go on (Celine Dion) 6. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen/Alexandra Burke/Jeff Buckley) 5. Nothing compares 2 U (Prince/Sinead O'Connor) 4. I will always love you (Whitney Houston)

3. The living years (Mike and the Mechanics) 2. Candle in the wind (Elton John)

Your father has gone off to find himself." She turned and looked at me for the longest time. "He wants to make believe he's someone else.

In some ways it seems like the more intelligent i get the more aware i become of my own inherited doom

Nobody is saying that these people do not ultimately cease to be. And Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours. It is just that so often they live till their hair is white. They make excellent corpses, among the expensive flowers … Nobody

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

The king of Siam once asked his wise men for a proverb that would be appropriate for any occasion. They suggested "This, too, shall pass". Well, in biochemistry an equally appropriate saying for all occasions is "Things are more complicated than they seem".

I'm starting to realize that I can't be a child forever, that I don't want to be a child forever. I've had my turn, and now it's time to grow up.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.