Quotes About Reflection

I find myself thinking, "I'm not so sure this is a great idea." I find myself saying, "Great.

We leave a mark wherever we go, whatever we do, and whatever we say.

tonight? Yoga? Meditation?

Human beings are not made to take shortcuts,... You're to live your life, moment by moment. Your life isn't here to entertain you - it's to be lived.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn...?

Still, isn't it nice to be nice, to hold a breath? Isn't it good to save up for it, and really relish it, just sometimes?

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn

One's perception of something often depended on just how the light hit it.

He had read once that God was like a mirror — the mirror never changed but the people who looked into it all saw something different. Unfortunately most people looked in and viewed their own face, confident it had been created in God's own image.

You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been?

Chicago delighted me," he wrote, "because it was just as chaotic as my own mind, and I found my own preposterous state of consciousness reflected and exaggerated at every turn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that genius lies in "being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

When I have a particular case in hand," he explained, "I . . . love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

His expressions of psychological depression in his notebooks (such as "Every thing I have done seems to me blank and suspicious") doubtless lay behind brooding lines like these: The doubts of the daytime and the doubts of the nighttime.… the curious whether and how, Whether that which appears so is so.… Or is it all flashes and specks?

Whitman wrote articles on almost every topic, storing up images and impressions that would later be useful to him as a poet.

Artists, on the other hand, talk to determine what works, what does not, and why. Their focus is more on the micro; it moves from the inside out.

One way to look at a painting—and I use that word as shorthand for visual art in general—is to notice as you take its measure what it is you actually find yourself thinking about, which may differ from what you imagine you're supposed to be thinking about.

History's lessons are no more enlightening than the wisdom of those who interpret them.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3 1996 ' I'll say to someone.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

We don't need to have cancer to start to really take our life seriously and to perceive its beauty.