Quotes About Reflection

Memories do not hurt, they only influence.

Unknowing, the fate of the old had crept up on him, and now he'd become the one who provided strategy and expected others to implement it—the one they all rightly bitched about in the pub after work. When did this happen to me?

age was a truly cumulative thing, bringing a degree of wisdom to life.

He knows it never works, so why does he always go for the same type? "Optimism!

You are so much smarter than me, aren't you?" "No. I just think things through quicker, that's all." "If that's not a definition of smart, I don't know what is.

Frank had been faintly dubious about coming to Lalonde. But now he had to admit it was the greatest decision he'd ever made. A man could sit back every evening and see what he'd achieved.

Pompous old farts need to have the piss taken out of them every now and then." She put her hands together in Buddhist fashion, and crossed her eyes. "It puts them in touch with their Oneness.

But it's so stupid. I just want to be left alone, I want time to come to terms with what's happened. That's all. We've got this beautiful farm, and we're making it work without hurting anybody.

We all have a bad morning after at some point in our lives.

I've studied this city's society closely while I've been here; it's conservative and sliding down the decadence decay curve.

They might be different species, but it was easy enough to see your own kind in a mirror, however great the distortion.

He didn't rate a wave this time; she simply stood watching him drive off, looking small and sad. He folded the rear-view mirror's image up and tucked it away in a corner of his mind. The last thing he needed now was any more guilt rattling round inside his skull.

To forgotten youth," Patricia said, and raised her glass. "May we always be reminded by envying those who have it.

The oldest human story of all: I never knew what I had until I lost it.

Some things are sharper than they have been for years." "That's good. That means death is approaching.

How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.

Hindsight must surely be the most useless function of the human brain, torturing yourself over the unalterable past.

That was the trouble with history, Oscar thought: Once the distance had grown long enough, any event could be seen favorably. The true horror faded with time, and ignorance replaced it.

The term "reflective function" (RF) refers to the operationalization of the psychological processes underlying the capacity to mentalize—

playing with reality, making the real unreal and vice versa, is the principal avenue for the development of mentalization.

Mentalization—a concept that is familiar in developmental circles—is the process by which we realize that having a mind mediates our experience of the

My father told me by the time you die you'll be lucky if you have six people you called your friends to carry your coffin.I now realize and believe the truth is I thought if I had a dollar for every friend I in my life I'd be rich. The sad truth is if I had a penny for every true friend I have I wouldn't have a nickel.

When we are reading we become immersed in stories both on an intellectual and emotional level and when we come back to our own skins, we feel a little changed'.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.