Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you’re a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet.

Megan Abbott

Tags: philosophy admiration reflection adolescence



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Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

Whitaker Chambers

Tags: reflection twentieth-century



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We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.

R.D. Ronald

Tags: reflection poison acid love-hurts love-gone-wrong



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Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

Isaac Watts

Tags: knowledge reflection ideas journaling



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Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself

Jennifer Worth

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Pero quién no es, de vez en cuando, una mancha en la vida de alguien

Alejandro Zambra

Tags: reflection stain



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...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...

John Geddes

Tags: darkness reflection heavy clouds-with-rain endless-darkness sunday-night



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...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

John Geddes

Tags: poetry sleep reflection life-and-living truths truth-of-life



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...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...

John Geddes

Tags: life knowledge moon reflection revelation path crossroads lights mapless-life



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...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...

John Geddes

Tags: reflection control face map mountebank physiognomy



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