Quotes About Reflection

L'Heure Exquise La lune blanche Luit dans les bois ; De chaque branche Part une voix Sous la ramée... Ô bien-aimée. L'étang reflète, Profond miroir, La silhouette Du saule noir Où le vent pleure... Rêvons, c'est l'heure. Un vaste et tendre Apaisement Semble descendre Du firmament Que l'astre irise... C'est l'heure exquise.

Ce fut le temps sous de clairs ciels, (Vous en souvenez-vous, Madame?) De baisers superficiels Et des sentiments à fleur d'âme. It was a time of cloudless skies, (My lady, do you recall?) Of kisses that brushed the surface And feelings that shook the soul.

Autumn Song" translated by Arthur Symons When a sighing begins In the violins Of the autumn-song, My heart is drowned In the slow sound Languorous and long Pale as with pain, Breath fails me when The hours toll deep. My thoughts recover The days that are over, And I weep. And I go Where the winds know, Broken and brief, To and fro, As the winds blow A dead leaf.

It is the return of a dog to his vomit.

Pourquoi travailler ? Parce qu'on n'éprouve plus, tant qu'on travaille, le sentiment, toujours tapi à l'arrière-plan de la conscience, qu'on mourra tôt ou tard ; et, dans mon cas, qu'on mourra bientôt.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.1 RALPH WALDO EMERSON

There's more to life than movies.

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

There is little doubt that those who get the most from life are those who look for the wonder in even the smallest things they do. Cultivate this skill and you'll find peace and satisfaction as well.

Alas! I have more hair on my shoulders then on my head.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten who you are.

I'll keep praying and asking God to reveal something more—if there is more.

Everyone dies, including me—which may be sooner rather than later. I need to be sure about where I'll go when I die. I need to be ready for whatever happens. It's time to revisit my beliefs. My eternal destination depends on knowing the truth.

After having much praised or much blamed anybody, one is generally sensible of something just the reverse soon afterwards.

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Polly

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Loneliness is not the worst emotion

Celebrating the times of your life, and the life in your times. from IT AIN'T ALL ABOUT THE COOKIN

You know there isn't much to do in life once you fall though the surface of things.

In the end you learned to live with things once you stopped talking about them.

When he sat on the Makepeace veranda, it was as if he'd gone to another country

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.