Quotes About Reflection

Still not sure what your risk might be? Then I dare you to ask yourself a reality-rattling question: "What would I do during my day or in my life for God if I wasn't concerned with what I wear, what I eat, where I sleep, what I own, what people think of me, or what discomfort~ I face? Think about your answer. You're probably at least in the neighborhood of where your personal journey starts.

The liberty of every individual is only the reflection of his own humanity, or his human right through the conscience of all free men, his brothers and his equals.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

Writers don't live their lives. They are simply making a report on it.

Everything passes away - suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?

In the end, the "model" that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be reflected on by all who seriously aspire to progress for the benefit of the human race.

Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.

If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

A Hero of Our Time, gentlemen, is indeed a portrait, but not of a single individual; it is a portrait composed of all the vices of our generation in the fullness of their development.

Nem akart most emberekkel találkozni. Talán érezte, hogy ? nem az.

I'd thought I'd felt like shit that day, but really I'd barely even entered the intestine.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

Like parodies of themselves, theological notions are reflected in the triviality of our lives.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

We are not born knowing how to understand and express what is inside our souls. That kind of knowing ourselves requires contemplation and reflection. We have to learn to notice and be aware of our internal experiences, to search our hearts and find words for what is inside us. Being fully known and understood requires that we say aloud to someone else what is going on within our souls.

He who avoids misunderstandings, Amused at the play of his own mind, Is ever joyful.

Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you—rotting you out.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

No, no pensaré en Gil como alguien que murió, ni tampoco pienso así en Jimmy, porque mi mente no va por esos caminos. Le echaré de menos, pero Gil sigue estando vivo en mi recuerdo, como lo está Jimmy, como lo están Trane y Bud y Monk y Bird y Mingus y Red y Paul y Wynton y todo el resto de hijoputas geniales, como Philly Joe, que ya han desaparecido de este mundo. Todos