Quotes About Reflection

What is history?, our answer, consciously or unconsciously, reflects our own position in time, and forms part of our answer to the broader question, what view we take of the society in which we live.

Watch what I do –           that reflects who I am. Don't just listen to what I say, that only reflects who I want to be.

That was my lesson. I needed to act differently.

In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.

At first it gave me pain, And I felt my ears turn perfectly pink When your exclamation made me think We might never get down again! But now I believe it is wiser far To remain for ever just where we are.

When we take life for granted, we're assholes. Every day we wake up and the world's still turning- that's a great day.

New Orleans is a city you must visit when you're young and foolish but return to when you're wiser and still searching for your dreams.

Whoever said life has anything to do with what we want or don't want? Life's a gift, Cassie. Sometimes we have to give something back.

Robbins, with Dora and Louis on either side, did not speak. A storm came into his head and he missed a good part of the service.

He stood there for a very long time, and the longer he stood, the more he sank. All the heart he had for living in the world began to leave him. He could feel the life running down his chest, his arms and legs, doing something for the ground that it had never been able to do for him.

It mattered only that those kind of chains were gone and that he had crawled out into the clearing and was able to stand up on his hind legs and look around and appreciate the difference between then and now, even on the awful Richmond days when the now came dressed as the then.

Why do I always have to want more?" he asked the river. And receiving no reply, he shook his head.

If I had my life again, I'd act differently. It's hard for a man if he thinks his wife doesn't respect him.

As we grow older, we become more aware of the larger flow of life

Gospodi Pomily: Lord have mercy.

He walked quite contentedly, therefore, unaware that he was an undesirable.

but there was no need. For at that

For it is a fact that the roots of a tree mirror the spreading crown of its branches. As the branches spread out, so do the roots in proportion. If the tree's branches die back, the roots do too. As above, so below. In this respect the system of the tree as a whole rather resembles, at top and bottom, the magnetic field of a bar magnet, or indeed of the Earth itself. And who knows what force fields, as yet unmeasured by man, may surround the physical manifestation of a tree?

Sviatopolk tenía la impresión de que ya no podía seguir odiando, pues el odio que se había nutrido con él año tras año, impulsándolo hacia delante como un cruel jinete que hinca las espuelas en los flancos de su caballo, había acabado por agotarlo.

I think I'll get cremated here myself,' said Patrick. 'No need to rush,' said Johnny. 'I was going to wait until I died.' 'Good thinking.

Het probleem van dingen doen die je eigenlijk niet wilde, was dat je je er opeens zo duidelijk van bewust werd wat voor andere dingen je allemaal had kunnen doen.

Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?

At the same time, his past lay before him like a corpse waiting to be embalmed.

What if memories were just memories, without any consolatory or persecutory power? Would they exist at all, or was it always emotional pressure that summoned images from what was potentially all of experience so far?