Quotes About Reflection

It is quiet, and when the belling tower strikes the late hour, it doesn't break the silence so much as it underpins it.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

Si quieres saber quién eres, camina hasta que no haya nadie que sepa tu nombre. Viajar nos pone en nuestro sitio, nos enseña más que ningún maestro, es amargo como una medicina, cruel como un espejo. Un largo tramo de camino te enseñará más sobre ti mismo que cien años de silenciosa introspección.

soaking in the quiet until he was full of it, then taking it with him when he left.

Does this seem to be a place that concerns itself overmuch with the turning of the world?

It had felt as if I were truly awake for the first time, true knowledge running like ice in my blood. The memory exhilirated me for a moment, then left me with a broken cord of loss.

Mi abuelo siempre decía que el otoño es la estación idónea para arrancar de raíz cualquier cosa que no quieras que vuelva a molestarte.

El otoño es el momento idóneo. En otoño todo está cansado y más dispuesto a morir.

If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers." I

Sin embargo —cavilación enigmática—, si alguna vez he conocido a alguien que no tenía ni una sola sombra en su corazón, seguramente debía de ser un niño demasiado pequeño para hablar. —Se

I could have," Kvothe said seriously, "and I didn't. I made my choice and I regret it to this day. Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.

I was in my early twenties and I was, to be quite honest, a bit of a punk. A swaggering entitled straight white guy who hadn't but a lot of thought into what it might be like to be anything other than a straight white guy. Because when you're a straight white guy, you don't *have* to think about that....

If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

What makes this a good place?" He looked out over the water for a long time before he answered. "It is an edge," he said at last. "It is a high place with a chance of falling. Things are more easily seen from edges. Danger rouses the sleeping mind. It makes some things clear.

En otoño es el momento idóneo. En otoño todo está cansado y más dispuesto a morir.

I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.

No sabía con certeza de qué huía, a menos que fuera de la gente.

I opened my mouth. Then closed it, deciding this was probably not the right time for questions. Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

She looked at me. Looked away. "You think too much of me." I smiled. "Perhaps you think too little of yourself.

It reminded me of the quiet that settles on the coldest days in winter when it hurts to breathe and everything is still.

Las preguntas que no podemos contestar son las que más nos enseñan.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

What other option did I have, now that words had failed me? What do any of us have when words fail us?