Quotes About Reflection

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 that is holding you 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.

I climbed the stairs to my apartment, lay down in my new bed and turned off the light. I waited to start crying or worrying

I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this moment.

Dessutom kunde jag inte glömma vad min syster en gång hade sagt till mig medan hon ammade: ''Att skaffa barn är som att skaffa sig en tatuering i ansiktet. Man måste vara bergsäker på att det är så man vill ha det innan man sätter igång.

I'm aware that many things 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.

Everything reminds us of something. But once you put your own expression and passion behind an idea, that idea becomes yours.

Of course you are. I'm sorry for many of the things I've done, too. Everyone is sorry. It's good to be sorry—but don't make a fetish of it.

you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Mandale luz y amor cuando te acuerdes de él y olvídate del tema

The wise man is always similar to himself.

El sufrimiento y las molestías son inevitables en esta vida, pero si encuentras la quietud necesaria con el tiempo descubrirás que todo ( lo incómodo y lo hermoso) pasa con el tiempo

Everyone is sorry. It's good to be sorry—but don't make a fetish of it.

Life goes on, after all, and one must always seek the lesson even through the sorrow. Never remain static; never stop collecting information. And

Once I got the hang of it, I found that eating alone by the window in a quiet restaurant is one of life's greatest secret pleasures.

The other day in prayer I said to God, Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?.

While it's lovely to be childlike in your pursuit of creativity, in other words, it's dangerous to be childish.

You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this moment.

If you clear out all of that space in your mind you would have a door way.

my fourth day in Rome, my shadow has still not darkened the door way of a church or a museum..

I'll tell you something, Vivian. I have no regrets. When I was a young girl, I honestly believed that a life spent in the theater would be nothing but fun. And God help me, kiddo—it was.

Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.

Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.