Reflection Quotes

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." "In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us." "I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same" "As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill." "If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed." "We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience" "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" "Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues" "Things always become obvious after the fact" "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." "Death may be the greatest of all human blessings" "A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience." "If you don't have any shadows, you're not in the light." "Sometimes we think we are nurturing our garden, but of course, we are nurturing ourselves." "The mind is like a river. The water flows endlessly from one form to another." "You better check yourself before you wreck yourself" "Our art is a reflection of our reality" "The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking." "The meaning of life is that it stops" "When you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back"