Quotes About Reflection

My role as Chitra is synonymous to my character in real life. If Chitra is crying or shouting or reacting in a certain way then Sudha would have reacted in the same manner.

I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.

The eye binds light, is itself a bound light. This binding is a reproductive synthesis, a Habitus.

We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

My films are a personal reflection on the impact that the state - the system and the world - has on me.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it's a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves—to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be.

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.

Reading is often thought of as a form of escapism, and it's a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself...

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

The thing about death is that it takes a while before you realize that it's never going to go away.

For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

Scrapbooking isn't about scraps of paper and photos. Scrapbooking is about scraps of life - yours and those special to you.

Pajamas are good for the soul.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. It's all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. Which is never.

I guess my question is: Is the new you the stranger? Or is the stranger the person you leave behind?" -Sherm

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.