Quotes About Reflection

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

History is important not only as a record of the past but also as a guide to the present. We need to know where we have come from in order to better understand where we are heading.

The first priority of the family should be to establish a quality of relationship with each other that is a reflection of an authentic relationship with God. That may have been what Paul was aiming at when he wrote to the church in Ephesians 5 and 6 about the family.

coming to terms with things as they are, with an awareness of how they have been, in order to feel, think, speak, and behave in ways that are increasingly inclusive, integrated, and balanced.

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

There's always a reason for God's creation. What was he trying to tell us? What are we to learn from all this?

Amazing what more we can see looking back. But God didn't give us eyes in the back of our heads. Our eyes, like our feet, face forward, toward the future.

Pray about it before you talk about it,' Drew replied. 'Maybe I should try.' 'No maybes about it.

She returned to her slow dance with the waves.

In other words, our spiritual journey occurs not in spite of the ambiguous and problematic experience of our actual life but because of it.

Happy the old people who after long experience and many trials reach this superior simplicity of true wisdom, which they had glimpsed from a distance in their childhood! With this meaning it can be said that a beautiful life is a thought of youth realized in maturity.

We read in Ecclesiasticus also: "In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin.

As the bee knows how to find honey in flowers, the gift of wisdom draws lessons of divine goodness from everything.

It is the purification of the intellect which prepares for contemplation.

Reginald Hill

Buses and trains both set you thinking, but not in the same way. Trains give you a rhythm, sent you into dreams, cut you off from reality. Buses were always stopping and starting; traffic, road-junctions, lights; and of course, bus-stops. The world you passed through was observable. And real. So was the world inside your head. Buses were good places to worry on.

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

I don't like to own things, I feel freer when I don't own things. Silence is very important to me. I find being alone rather relaxing.

Invite Tranquility The sea,-- Something to look at When we are angry.

An Elegy A thousand times must we deplore The lost will never come to life again; Even as flowing water runs away, Returning nevermore. Lady Kanin

Qué pasa, qué pasa. Y no sentí miedo. Y no sentí tristeza. Y no sentí nada. Porque todo eso lo había sentido tanto que ya ni cuenta me daba si era que siempre lo estaba sintiendo o si ya no lo podía volver a sentir aunque quisiera.