Quotes About Reflection

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

Historian Bernard DeVoto later called 1846 "the year of decision." Not all the decisions proved wise.

I think; therefore, I am above average.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

rooted in 'the forgetting of Being'.

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

The only fool he tolerated gladly was himself

Do not wait till tomorrow to be wise, For tomorrow's sun may never rise.

But all sudden things come from a deep study of conversion -- they are sudden only on the surface.

We live individual lives with the consciousness of death and awareness of the past. But the most important part of that sentence is the individual part. Let yourself be humbled by the experiences people have been having for thousands of years. And speak of it.

Public life...lacks coherence and drama. (History, by contrast, attains coherence and drama only in hindsight.)

Who can talk you through this stuff before you decided to act on it?" "Well," said the president, "you won't like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself.

As often as not, he surprised himself. "What did I say?" he would ask after getting severe blowback.

Well," said the president, "you won't like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself.

How we relate to God is generally how we relate to others.

this is the problem with photographs. After a while, you can't remember if you're recalling the actual memory or the memory of the photograph. Or perhaps the photograph is the only reason you remember that moment. (p.85)

The memories we take to the ends of our lives have no real rhyme or reason, especially when you think of the endless things that you do over the course of a day, a week , a month, a year, a lifetime. All the cups of coffee, hand-washings, changes of clothes, lunches, goings to the bathroom, headaches, naps, walks to school, trips to the grocery store, conversations about the weather ---all the things so unimportant that they should be immediately forgotten. Yet they aren't

I thought that nothing enormously bad or good had happened to me during my life. All the normal things had occurred. I had lived a completely unremarkable life. I wanted only my home, and the love and safety of those around me, nothing else. I knew there was no particular reason why I was put on this earth, but here I was and I was glad to be here, awed by the beauty of it. It was a perfect moment. (p.99)

Yet the sameness is also a trap. It's part of the narrowing of your world, the tunnel vision of age. When something different happens to you, it's hard to see it as a good thing. Which means you can't always recognize a perfect moment or get yourself to a place where one can happen. Or sometimes perfect moments happen and you don't even realize it. That is why you need to travel.

smiling. Alone, Mateo turned

Le seul souvenir qui me reste depuis des siècles que je vis dans la pierre, est le doux contact des larmes sur un visage d'homme

Le seule souvenir qui me reste depuis des siècles que je vis dans la pierre, est le doux contact des larmes sur un visage d'homme.

Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.

I quote others only in order to better express myself.