Quotes About Reflection

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. If you want to talk to God, run an ultra.

at the end of all our exploring we will arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

In school, you get the lesson and then take the test; in parenting, you take the test and then get the lesson.

intrepid outward exploration of the landscape and a revealing inward journey of the self. These are the things that keep me going, the lust for exploration and the quest to better comprehend who I am and what I'm made of.

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Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.

Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.

The kaleidoscope remains the most efficacious instrument for those of us who've been shattered. There's so much I can't explain if someone would just give me the chance...

She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been and the person I was finally becoming. Caught between the two of them, I felt rather lonely, as one often does with a new acquaintance.

After all, I might not intend to use him for a plaything, but I could still appreciate looking through the toy-shop window.

The truth is a hard mirror, and I am in no mood to look upon my reflection.

Of course, he was absolutely correct, it was no concern of mine. So naturally I thought about it--excessively.

When the light has fled but the stars have not yet shown themselves. That is the gloaming, the loveliest and saddest hour of the day.

whilst I reboarded my train of thought.

To walk away from something is only half the picture. What are you walking towards?

Have you ever looked a starving beggar in the eye and thought that the privileges you enjoy are nothing more than a whim of the cosmos?

I'm pretty sure somewhere in the afterlife, some woman is feeling ashamed of herself because her cloud isn't as silver as the angel next door's.

Children know nothing beyond the upbringing they have. It is only adults who regret what they lacked.

Ah, do not mistake solitude for loneliness," he advised. "A man may be lonely in a crowd, or he can be quite content in the society of the natural world.

He paused again, letting his words settle like stones falling to the bottom of a pond.

Too late, I understood the magnitude of a woman's vulnerability in marriage, how every particle of her happiness depends upon her choosing well. And I had chosen unwisely.