Quotes About Reflection

Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.

I still can't say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don't think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.

After a certain age, time just drizzles down upon your head like rain in the month of March: you're always surprised at how much of it can accumulate, and how fast.

failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things.

Whatever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.

the beauty of doing nothing

The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.

My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything you're holding back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

What life is, we know not. What life does, we know well. —LORD PERCEVAL

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift - or curse, perhaps - of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day.

In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence.

I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

I always hated hearing old people yammering on like this when I was young. And I do what to assure you: I'm aware that many thing were not better in the 1940s. Underarm deodorants and air-conditioning were woefully inadequate, for instance, so everybody stank like crazy, especially in the summer, and also we had Hitler.

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.

Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening

Elizabeth Gilbert

Lucky is the soul whose only troubles are self-inflicted. a

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?