Quotes About Reflection

Partout où j'ai voulu dormir, Partout où j'ai voulu mourir, Partout où j'ai touché la terre, Sur ma route est venu s'asseoir Un malheureux vêtu de noir, Qui me ressemblait comme un frère.

Je commence à avoir trente ans, et je perds le talent de vivre.

Regardez moi ce petit corps maigre, ce lendemain d'orgie ambulant.

I love the sound of the horn, at night, in the depth of the woods.

God! how sad is the sound of the horn deep in the woods!

When I was seven, that would be in the year 458, there came the first sudden upset of my life of sudden upsets.

Try walking a mile in your enemy's shoes. You'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes.

In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. 5

The path to God's favor always requires self-examination and a right heart before God.

It's often been said that the only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

There are likely kernels of truth in the complaints that can be turned into valuable insights.

The unresolved painful experiences of our past lead us to make unhealthy decisions in the future.

Once you've experienced any emotional pain, the pain is imprinted on your inner being and remains there until you intentionally resolve it.

Getting better requires humbling ourselves before the Lord.

To determine whether you are truly thriving, you must also consider your eulogy virtues—the virtues others will extol at your funeral. These are the character traits at your core, the deep internal part of you where it's not always comfortable to look for any length of time.

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.

As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor - Washington's most sought-after bachelor.