Quotes About Reflection

I just wish I could understand my father.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even to new places were somehow always awakening memories of places seen in an ever-receding past.

Somehow, Picard reflected, being snubbed by a Vulcan didn't seem as objectionable as being snubbed by someone else. Maybe it was because they were so reserved to begin with. Someday, he told himself, I would like to get to know a Vulcan better. Get inside his head, as it were.

It's a serious world, someone has to make fun of it.

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

It is not the dying that matters, it is how the man lived.

reflection?' 'He would not see his reflection presumably, since the light could never reach the mirror from his face if the mirror is receding from it at the same speed.

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.

We judge ourselves by our best acts and most noble intentions, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.

I don't like to write. But I love having written.

I don't like to write, but I love to have written.

I can tell you this: there will be other girls, other disasters. And there will be nights to come, his life mostly behind him, when he will long to hurt like that again.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully for its hidden assets.

It is a reflection of a well-known social problem during the Victorian age, when female servants were often made pregnant by the master of the house or one of his sons.

To weep not for the way things had once been but for the way things had been supposed to go and did not. People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.

People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.

It is, of course, essential to remember that theology is not merely a matter of intellect, but also of experience. Theology is concerned with spiritual realities, and must include personal experience as well as ideas ... The feeling equally with reason must share in the consideration of theology, because theology is of the heart, and the deepest truths are inextricably bound up with personal needs and experiences.17

what that post-Holocaust life ought to be.23

He wrote about this claim, that the evils of Auschwitz could not be assimilated into the Hegelian system and hence by implication by any philosophical thought and indeed by any thought at all, briefly in his book The Religious Dimension of Hegel's Thought, published in 1968, and then again in an essay, "Would Hegel Today Be a Hegelian?

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.