There is, I believe, no person, however insignificant in the world, but, if an account of his life and adventures were committed to paper, would be entertaining in some degree: the follies of our own life, and those we are liable to be drawn into by others, will constantly afford matter for serious reflection.
Henry Spencer AshbeeTag: life reflection insignificance
Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.
D.H. LawrenceTag: reflection
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?
Bill WattersonTag: humor reflection calvin hobbes puddle
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn
Robert FrostTag: on-writing reflection introspection
I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.
John ChristopherTag: reflection cowardice
Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: doubt thinking existence reason purpose meaning-of-life philosophy belief nature eternity atheism human-nature miracle sin reflection myth meaning metaphor thoughts blindness blind-faith purpose-of-life resurrection critical-thinking blind intoxication christian-faith christian-miracle critical-thought death-of-reason doubt-is-sin foundation-of-belief origin religious-faith resurrection-of-jesus sinful wasted-life
The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has already lived to the fullest. What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him?
No, thank you,' he will think. 'Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, although these are things which cannot inspire envy.
Tag: inspirational reflection
Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.
Poppy Z. BriteTag: loneliness night reflection torture evening
There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.
J.K. RowlingTag: reflection
Real change will come when you focus on yourself - not on changing him, Real change comes when you are willing and able to state your claim on what you are and are not willing to live with. Just remember to let him in on it
Dory HollanderTag: life change reflection
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