Quotes About Reflection

You could get my father to state, in all seriousness, that one of his problems is that he isn't half as pleased with himself as he has every reason to be.

This could be one reason I've never burdened my life with children—I've thought too much about why people lose the courage to look each other in the eye.

If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead.

You can learn something about your fellow human beings from what they write in the margin

in our consciousness lies the glittering and flawless knowledge of perfect ice.

When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

To touch time. That, I suppose, is what life for me has been about since then.

No le salen las cuentas porque piensa en Anna. Y se enfada. Pero vuelve a pensar en ella".

Wir verkümmern, lieber Herr Doktor, weil wir nur noch meinen und nicht mehr denken.

Obedience is now just one of the fun ways we say thanks to Him while He drenches us with favor; it naturally flows from our lives. Christianity is not a process in which we earn love; it's a process in which we reflect love.

These Days I mainly just talk to Plants and Dogs

It was nearly winter. I had just seen a friend die, and was again beginning to take pleasure in my own existence. This friend, who thought of himself as the "first man to experience pain", had nevertheless tried up to the last moment to wish death away. I was thankful for all things and decreed: Enjoy yourself, take advantage of your days of good health.

In a sense, the mentally deranged and feebleminded were my guardian angels, and when I hadn't seen any of them in a long time, the sight of an idiot gave me a sudden burst of health and strength.

Sorrow beyond dreams.

Life is a poem, look carefully and you will find a verse. Peter Harrison December 2016

Logic doesn't work in human relations, I guess," he told Ella. "I try to understand myself as I tried to understand the bosses in my muckraking days. I 'got' them, but not myself. I don't know anything about myself.

corridor, supposedly out of earshot, about the meeting they had just taken part in. Then we asked the team playing themselves to do the same. This enactment

my conviction that the Holocaust is no less historically explicable than any other human experience, though the job is not easy.

but rather inner identification with evil.

I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

He's getting old. I don't count the years. I don't multiply by seven. They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn't they breed them to live longer, to live as long as a man?

Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it... Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late. I know now that I loved him more than anything on earth or off of it.

How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.