Quotes About Reflection

Jane Austen's books are always, to some extent, concerned with the problem of learning by painful experience

Making a self can be like writing, and now I think writing can be like home: a space you make that you dwell in and roam through for hours every day, a space that's absolutely yours.

Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.

Minimalism is really about reassessment of priorities, so you can remove unnecessary thigns from your life; get rid of things like possessions, activities, and relationships that do not improve or bring value to your life.

Minimalism can help you find contentment and satisfaction and finally put meaning into your life. Just removing unnecessary things that do not bring any value to you will essentially open the door to a brand new perspective on living.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Angry people are not always wise.

To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we've used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown.

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You see, in the morning I always practice imagination for an hour or two. It does me lots of good.

Lord, is it I . . .? There is so much good in the worst of us And so much bad in the best of us That it behoves not any of us To talk about the rest of us.

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

after all your talk of food … you're still hungry after all your talk of clothes … you're still cold eating rice is what fills your belly wearing clothes is what keeps you warm without really thinking it through you grumble that the way to find Buddha is difficult look inside your heart … there's Buddha don't look for him outside your self —HAN SHAN, The View from Cold Mountain

If I could have my life over again, I would devote it not to art or literature, but to language. Life itself may hit one hard, but always, always one can take sanctuary in language. Language is as much an art and as sure a refuge as paint¬ ing or music or literature. It reflects and interprets and makes bearable life; only it is a wider, because more subconscious, life.

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Si no te interesas por las cosas, no aprendes nada. - Amarte es mi destino

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.