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But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it. ~ Marisa Silver
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Marisa Silver
My hope is that whatever it is you decide to believe about whatever subject, you have thought through carefully each of those beliefs and at least tried to make sure that they are your beliefs and not those of your parents. It matters less to me what your specific beliefs are than that you have carefully arrived at your beliefs through reason and evidence and thoughtful reflection. ~ Michael Shermer
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Michael Shermer
Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
You run ahead? Are you doing it as a shepherd? Or as an exception? A third case would be as a fugitive. First question of conscience.

Are you genuine? Or merely an actor? A representative? Or that which is represented? In the end, perhaps you are merely a copy of an actor. Second question of conscience.

Are you one who looks on? Or one who lends a hand? Or one who looks away and walks off? Third question of conscience.

Do you want to walk along? Or walk ahead? Or walk by yourself? One must know what one wants and that one wants. Fourth question of conscience. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding existence, been through the revolutionary apocalypse. He knew its tradition like an eyewitness. He knew every little detail of that great thing.
A pontifical and warrior nature, strange in a youth. He was officiating and militant; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of democracy; above the movement of the time, a priest of the ideal. ~ Victor Hugo
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Victor Hugo
Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty. ~ Mario Cuomo
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Mario Cuomo
It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence. ~ Yi-Fu Tuan
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Yi-Fu Tuan
She was a lover and a lewd cohabitator, a liar and a cherished friend, an aunt and a kindly grandmother, a champion of the fallen, and a late-in-coming fighter for reason over fear. Even in those final hours, quite and rocking, arriving and departing, she knew who she was. ~ Laura Moriarty
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Laura Moriarty
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come ~ Leonardo Da Vinci
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Leonardo Da Vinci
You have long since known that safe is a film skin thing ~ Klara Piechocki
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Klara Piechocki
He looked at the road white a lot now. Sometimes the white line was solid, sometimes it was broken, and sometimes it was double like streetcar tracks. He wondered how people could ride over this road all the other days of the year and not see the pattern of life and death in that white paint. Or did they see, after all? ~ Stephen King
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Stephen King
The sun is but a morning star. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Henry David Thoreau
Thoughts are the shorebirds scurrying back and forth just beyond the edge of oncoming wave. ~ Tom Gillaspy
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Tom Gillaspy
Dreams are a luxury of the human condition. ~ Tom Althouse
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Tom Althouse
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. ~ Nouman Ali Khan
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Nouman Ali Khan
Why some people feel more comfortable in the "margin" of society, may simply be that it imparts them more breathing space, shores up their identity, embodies a gateway to self-determination, and confers them a sense of sovereignty, allowing more time for stressless apprehension and thoughtful reflection. ("If he doesn't play ball » ) ~ Erik Pevernagie
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Erik Pevernagie
I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note) ~ Wendy O. Williams
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Wendy O. Williams
[T]hey reached the dwelling of Governor Bellingham...now moss-grown, crumbling to decay, and melancholy at heart with the many sorrowful or joyful occurrences, remembered or forgotten, that have happened, and passed away, within their dusky chambers. Then, however, there was the freshness of the passing year on its exterior, and the cheerfulness, gleaming forth from the sunny windows, of a human habitation into which death had never entered. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and to a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy. ~ Wendy O. Williams
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Wendy O. Williams
As you awake from dreams may you find this one the wondrous one to awaken to. ~ Tom Althouse
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Tom Althouse
The heart doesn't know it's expanding with compassion anymore than a hawk spreading its swings knows it's being a hawk. Nor does someone acting out of love often realize they are being kind. ~ Mark Nepo
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Mark Nepo
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
We are all One and others are simply reflections of ourselves. When the mirror is cleared, the reflection becomes clean too. ~ Human Angels
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Human Angels
Our lives are made up of many things, not just one. Many answers, not just one. It's men that want one answer for everything. They're always making laws, as though they could make one law that would be just in all cases. They can't. They never have. I think men get derailed, sometime during their growing up. Instead of settling for what's honest and real and sort of thoughtful, they go off on these quests. They go strutting and crowing, waving their weapons and shouting their battle cries. They say they're seeking something higher, but it always seems to end in pain, doesn't it? ~ Sheri S. Tepper
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Sheri S. Tepper
Never before had I raced in an angry mood and I couldn't believe how powerful it was. Now I understood why Lance used anger so effectively and why he hated the people he had to beat at the tour. ~ David Millar
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by David Millar
The book is warm. The book is handy. The book is handsome to the eye. The book occupies the shelf of the owner and is a reflection of him or her or, actually, me. The book is always there, to be reached for, to be thumbed and, too often I admit, to wonder about: Why did I buy this? ~ Richard Cohen
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Richard Cohen
Augustine of Hippo said, Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it. ~ Shane Claiborne
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Shane Claiborne
Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas ... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass. ~ Richard P. Feynman
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Richard P. Feynman
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul. ~ Bruce Lee
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Bruce Lee
The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story ... ~ Maya Angelou
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Maya Angelou
I don't know if I will have the time to write any more letters, because I might be too busy trying to participate. So, if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school, and you helped me. Even if you didn't know what I was talking about, or know someone who's gone through it, you made me not feel alone. Because I know there are people who say all these things don't happen. And there are people who forget what it's like to be sixteen when they turn seventeen. I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody's mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here, and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you're not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you're listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite. ~ Stephen Chbosky
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Stephen Chbosky
We were brought up in a world which was based on Aristotle. Science-wise and everything, that's really quite exciting and you learn a lot. There was one problem: there were parallel realities. And in a parallel reality, there's always one reality that's the prime and the second is always a secondary. And everything's a reflection of something else. ~ Lawrence Weiner
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Lawrence Weiner
All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls. ~ Dean Koontz
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Dean Koontz
What is rational in the practice of thoughtful medicine is impractical for the system. ~ Melissa Cady
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Melissa Cady
To overlook those years (muddled, complicated times) is to fall into the trap of only celebrating success. We can learn as much, if not more, from failure, from promising paths that turn into dead ends. The vision, understanding, patience, and wisdom that informed Steve's last decade were forged in the trials of these intervening years. The failures, stinging reversals, miscommunications, bad judgment calls, emphases on wrong values-the whole Pandora's box of immaturity- were necessary prerequisites to the clarity, moderation, reflection, and steadiness he would display in later years. ~ Brent Schlender
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Brent Schlender
That's exactly the good thing about the Injun life
you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'
which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks ~ Jim Fergus
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Jim Fergus
Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently. ~ Paulo Freire
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Paulo Freire
When you become vulnerable, any ideal or perfect image of yourself falls away. (...)

Many people are addicted to perfection, and in their pursuit of the ideal, they have no patience with vulnerability. (...)

Every poet would like to write the ideal poem. Though they never achieve this, sometimes it glimmers through their best work. Ironically, the very beyondness of the idea is often the touch of presence that renders the work luminous. The beauty of the ideal awakens a passion and urgency that brings out the best in the person and calls forth the dream of excellence.

The beauty of the true ideal is its hospitality towards woundedness, weakness, failure and fall-back. Yet so many people are infected with the virus of perfection. They cannot rest; they allow themselves no ease until they come close to the cleansed domain of perfection. This false notion of perfection does damage and puts their lives under great strain. It is a wonderful day in a life when one is finally able to stand before the long, deep mirror of one's own reflection and view oneself with appreciation, acceptance, and forgiveness. On that day one breaks through the falsity of images and expectations which have blinded one's spirit. One can only learn to see who one is when one learns to view oneself with the most intimate and forgiving compassion. ~ John O'Donohue
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by John O'Donohue
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
When you see beauty anywhere, it's a reflection of yourself. ~ Shakti Gawain
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Shakti Gawain
In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an 'addendum in' my life verses the 'agenda of' my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough
A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits. ~ Hippocrates
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Hippocrates
I don't believe that God is a fussy faultfinder in dealing with theological ideas. He who provides forgiveness for a sinful life will also surely be a generous judge of theological reflection. Even an orthodox theologian can be spiritually dead, while perhaps a heretic crawls on forbidden bypaths to the sources of life. ~ Helmut Thielicke
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Helmut Thielicke
Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
Understanding and accepting the decisions you have made, good or bad, will make you bolder. Reflection helps punctuate your past and indent your future. ~ Farshad Asl
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Farshad Asl
Refutation of the Assertion That the (Phenomenal) Appearances Are Mind
Although forms appear to the mind, the (objective) appearances are not mind.... When the reflection of your face appears in a mirror, it appears as the face looks, because the clear surface of the mirror is capable of making the reflection appear and the face has the potential of appearing or of projecting the reflection. At that time, the reflection of the face is not the face, nor is there any other face than the face which imprinted it. Likewise, various kinds (of phenomena) are appearing in the deluded mind because of the interdependent origination of the causes and conditions of delusion. The various objective appearances, such as mountains, are not mind. Also there is nothing in the mind which truly exists, but (merely) appearances (created by the) delusory habituation of the mind. So they are the forms of delusory appearances. They are wrong appearances, just as the person who has "hairy vision" will see hair before his eyes.... ~ Longchen Rabjam
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Longchen Rabjam
One of the most wonderful things about Pride and Prejudice is the variety of voices it embodies. There are so many different forms of dialogue: between several people, between two people, internal dialogue and dialogue through letters. All tensions are created and resolved through dialogue. Austen's ability to create such multivocality, such diverse voices and intonations in relation and in confrontation within a cohesive structure, is one of the best examples of the democratic aspect of the novel. In Austen's novels, there are spaces for oppositions that do not need to eliminate each other in order to exist. There is also space - not just space but a necessity - for self-reflection and self-criticism. Such reflection is the cause of change. We needed no message, no outright call for plurality, to prove our point. All we needed was to reach and appreciate the cacophony of voices to understand its democratic imperative. There was where Austen's danger lay. ~ Azar Nafisi
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Azar Nafisi
My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Moshe Feldenkrais
Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career. ~ Bobby Allison
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Bobby Allison
I stole some of your lollipops."
"Really. Well, if you're in the mood to lick something ... "
She laughed.
"We can hear you," Seth called.
"So?" Marcus countered and kissed his wife again.
"So she's like a daughter to me, jackass."
"Yeah," David seconded. "There's a reason I poured thousands of dollars into soundproofing your bedroom."
"Hmm." Marcus sounded thoughtful. "I do believe your family is trying to tell me I should take you to bed."
"That isn't what I - oh screw it," Seth muttered. ~ Dianne Duvall
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Dianne Duvall
I often think about bachelors, a life of pure decision, of thoughtful calculations, of every inclination honored. They go about on their own, nicely accompanied in their singularity by the companion of possibility. For cannot any man, young or old, rich or poor, turn a few corners and bump into marriage? ~ Elizabeth Hardwick
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick
The conduct of our lives is the true reflection of our thoughts. - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE ~ Gretchen Rubin
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Gretchen Rubin
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything ... All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Reflection is a good reminder of the truth! You may turn your eyes away from the truths, but the reflections will remind them to you! And anything which describes a truth well is a reflection of that truth! Turn your eyes away from the Moon, then the lake will remind the Moon to you, the shadows of the wolves howling against the Moon will remind the truth to you, even in the eyes of a frog, you shall see the Moon! Thus, if you turn your face away from the truth, it will never work! Because the reminders of truth are everywhere and they are as strong as the truth itself! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be. ~ Hannah Arendt
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Hannah Arendt
Let your words and speech be a reflection of your life. If you always practice speaking truth...so your shall your life follow and show it☺ ~ Timothy Pina
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Timothy Pina
You picked that out?" Caine asked. "That pink, plastic toy?"
I turned to look at him. "I happen to have been a little girl, once upon a time, detective. I know what they like. Every little girl wants to be a princess."
A thoughtful frown overcame the angry tension on Caine's rugged face. "And what happens when they grow up?"
I thought of my mother and sisters and all the horrors that had happened the day they'd died. A bitter laugh escaped from my tight lips.
"Then they just want to be little girls again. ~ Jennifer Estep
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Jennifer Estep
But it's very thoughtful of you to say that. It shows a kind heart, and I think that's so much more important than being clever. ~ Lloyd Alexander
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Lloyd Alexander
It's like looking into a full-length mirror and seeing nothing but pure beauty in the reflection ... and then watching helplessly as it shatters into a thousand pieces before your eyes, knowing that you can do nothing to keep it from breaking ... ~ J. Sterling
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by J. Sterling
Mirrors: they show you what you lack, not what you have. ~ Marty Rubin
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Marty Rubin
Questioning this most dearly held core of the Dutch sense of self not only is felt as a direct attack, it also means that the nonbeliever, the antiracist killjoy, is putting himself or herself above "us," which in itself again runs deeply counter to another strand in the Dutch sense of self: "gelijke monnikken, gelijke kappen" (literally, equal monks, equal cowls), which invokes the deep egalitarian strand in Dutch self-representation. Critical self-reflection, moreover and ironically, is a scarce commodity in a culture that delights in imagining itself as "nothing," "just normal" (Ramdas 1998), without specific characteristics, much less infused with deep racializations. The point of not knowing, racial ignorance, and innocence has long passed. ~ Gloria Wekker
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Gloria Wekker
When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will. ~ Eckhart Tolle
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Eckhart Tolle
The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
A Bookworm
A moth ate a word. To me that seemed
A curious happening when I heard of that wonder,
That a worm should swallow the word of a man,
A thief in the dark eat a thoughtful discourse
And the strong base it stood on. He stole, but he was not
A whit the wiser when the word had been swallowed. ~ Anonymous
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Anonymous
Symptoms of chronic stress are feelings of fragmentation and of chasing after time - of not being able to be present. What we are looking for is a settled, joyful state of being, and we need to give this state space. The Archbishop once told me that people often think he needs time to pray and reflect because he is a religious leader. He said those who must live in the marketplace - business people, professionals and workers - need it even more. ~ Desmond Tutu
Thoughtful Reflection quotes by Desmond Tutu
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