Quotes About Reflection

He concluded one of his books with the words: "He seems to me a very foolish man and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.

See? Memories aren't happy, they're sad. Don't you know anything?

Why do people start wars when they know so many sad things are going to happen?

Termine como termine mi historia, nunca olvidaré lo afortunado que soy.

The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn't it?

Primero hay que educar el corazón y después la cabeza".

Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.

I'm looking over a four-leaf cloverThat I overlooked before.

My life needs editing.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It's the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.

Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.

As Winston Churchill whimsically observed, "Men occasionally stumble across the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Art is a crucial, dangerous operation we perform on ourselves. Unless we take a chance, we die in art.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.