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Quotes About Reflection

I never hear you practice." He smiled: "Only those who are dirty need to wash.
~ Unknown
Has it taught you to look at things different?' he asked. i thought, How does he know about all that? But i didn't have to ask him, because he just nodded toward his house. 'I bounce around them four walls a lot, Victor. I write some letters, I keep in touch with people. Putting your thoughts on paper, it makes you stop and notice stuff. Kind of slows you down.
~ Peter Gould
Cuanto más nos preguntemos qué sucederá después, más atención prestamos. Y cuanta más atención prestemos, más escucharemos, percibiremos y retendremos.
~ Peter Guber
Yo soy tú. Tengo los mismos problemas y frustraciones que tú».
~ Peter Guber
One of the children excitedly jumped in with, "Yeah, the bad guy broke the window and …" Susie immediately reframed the narrative. "Not a bad guy. He just made a decision for his own benefit and didn't consider other people.
~ Unknown
Do you think that when Barack Obama was a young boy in kindergarten, do think that sometimes he made mistakes?
~ Unknown
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.
~ Peter Høeg
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.
~ Peter Høeg
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.
~ Peter Høeg
It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.
~ Peter Høeg
Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla
~ Peter Høeg
When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.
~ Peter Høeg
On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.
~ Peter Høeg
Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left.
~ Peter Høeg
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.
~ Peter Høeg
One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.
~ Peter Høeg
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me.
~ Peter Høeg
In the long run, you can never be any better than your surroundings. When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they are animals, you, too, become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.
~ Peter Høeg
Laim?s žmogui suteikia ne tiek mintis apie sukrapštytus pinigus ir s?kming? veikl?, kiek žinojimas, ko gal?jai sau leisti atsisakyti.
~ Peter Høeg
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself. Cantor
~ Peter Høeg
Every life contains within it a potential for clarification. He has lost that chance. The conflicts that are now pressing him down in his chair are the same ones he had in his thirties, when I got to know him, when he became my father. The only thing age has done is to whittle away his ability to confront them.
~ Peter Høeg
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself. Cantor illustrated the concept of infinity for his students by telling them that there was once a man who had a hotel with an infinite number of rooms, and the hotel was fully occupied.
~ Peter Høeg
What was meant was that time is something you have to hold on to and the place where we examined it that first time was where the Hornbæk line ran through the school grounds.
~ Peter Høeg
The bad thing about death is not that it changes the future. It's that it leaves us alone with our memories.
~ Peter Høeg