Quotes About Reflection

The only forgiveness I can muster is to call him human. 

premier firm in Seattle. Seeing his pre-teen scrawl should have made him smile at his young self.

When Evan Chance read the bucket list he'd penned when he was twelve years old, he caught a glimpse of the man he'd wanted to be when he grew up. Now, at nearly thirty-five, he knew he was not that man.

Jews put black over mirrors during times os mourning so they wouldn't think about themselves. But I never did look in mirrors anyway, because I disliked myself. No, wait. I disliked my appearance.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

It is time to turn on the moon. It is time to live by a different light.

If we want to find contentment, humility must be our frame of mind. If we want to be like Christ, we must take the form of a servant. We

The more you read, the more you will find your thoughts and conversation reflecting your reading, and the more you will want to read.

We have no need to learn to think much of ourselves, to care for ourselves, to consider our own needs, wants, and desires. We already do that far too much. The problem is getting us to think of others, to have a lowliness of mind that springs from humility and love.

Peter) Some of the most important scenes in our lives are ones we do not witness.

I am no wise man. Every day shows me how little I know about life, and how wrong I can be. But there are things I know to be true. I know I will die. And I know that the only sane response to such a horror is to love.

I tell them I am not at peace in spite of what I suffered, but because of it.

The mountain was teaching me a hard lesson: camaraderie is a noble thing, but in the end death is an opponent each of us would face in solitude.

I had to laugh at the arrogance of anyone who had ever thought that human beings have conquered the earth.

I was born in a town that was straight out of a fairy tale. Many people died there, and when I walked away, I held hands with my other self. To me it seemed like we were the only two people in the world. Neither one of us possessed a real name.

Si no consigo huir de mi oscuro pasado, no tendré futuro".

The way we think about our past informs what we think is possible today.

The world is the way it is now because of five thousand years of ingrained structures of power based on darker times when things were much more violent... But we don't have to act that way now. We can think and imagine ourselves differently once we understand what we 've based our ideas on.

And all we have, in the end, are the choices we make.

A year may be easy, but its days are hard indeed.

because, honestly, which of us really understands why we do the things we do?

Do you think that you are the stars, perhaps? And that I am the moon? I thought you were the moon. But I have been absent, too, you know. I think I have been absent all this time.

You need that disagreement, we all do, so that we can realize that the world isn't smooth and even, not everyone agrees with everyone else. You need a window into another world to work out what you think of your own.

Dovid thought: our words will swallow us. We have spat them out, but in the end they will drown us.