#reflective

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Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold And like the sky my soul is also turnin' Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind


Ray Lamontagne


#epiphany #gold #heart #moving-on #redemption

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.


Jean Piaget


#call #double #first #i #objects

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.


Rainer Maria Rilke


#reflective #solitude #spiritual #inspirational

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.


Bryce Courtenay


#love

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.


W. H. Auden


#become #goes #immediate #like #music

He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.


Nicholas Sparks


#change

With the buck before me suspended in immobility, there seems to be time for all things, time even to turn my gaze inward and see what it is that has robbed the hunt of its savour: the sense that this has become no longer a morning's hunting but an occasion on which either the proud ram bleeds to death on the ice or the old hunter misses his aim; that for the duration of this frozen moment the stars are locked in a configuration in which events are not themselves but stand for other things.


J.M. Coetzee


#death

These are desparate times." - Stephanie Plum


Janet Evanovich


#money

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?


Hugh Mackay


#autumn #because #cousins #day #easter

The heart is the best reflective thinker.


Wendell Phillips


#heart #reflective #thinker