Quotes About Reflection

So what can we do about the craziness of the world?" "Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only—make you in peace.

it is wise in such circumstances to heed the advice of the venerable North American philosopher Pamela Anderson: "Never get married on vacation.

be a scientist of your own spiritual experience.

el fracaso tiene una función. Te pregunta si de verdad quieres seguir haciendo cosas».

Entonces, ¿la tristeza es un sitio? —preguntó Giovanni. —Un sitio en el que la gente a veces se pasa años —contesté.

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This

Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death

I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether

Groceries, baby, listen to your friend Richard. You go set your lily-white ass down in that meditation cave every day for the next three months and I promise you this--you're gonna start seeing some stuff that's so damn beautiful it'll make you wanna throw rocks at the Taj Mahal.

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one of my favorite possible things to be.

To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.

But why must everything always have a practical application?

As my friend Pastor Rob Bell warns: "Don't rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you." Don't let go of your courage the moment things stop being easy or rewarding. Because that moment? That's the moment when interesting begins.

What happened now? he would ask -- another man thoroughly exhausted by me.

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and press my forehead against the floor. There, I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks.

And the question now for me is, What are my choices to be? What do I believe that I deserve in this life? Where can I accept sacrifice, and where can I not?

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's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

This scene would have been even more awkward than it sounds, except that eventually I got distracted by my own reflection in the train window, and that kept me busy for a good long while. (Forgive me, Angela, but being captivated by your own appearance is part of what it means to be a young and pretty girl.)

I don't want to be married anymore. I was trying so hard not to know this, but the truth kept insisting itself to me.

También sé que no voy a tener hijos sólo para no arrepentirme de no haberlos tenido; no me parece un motivo suficiente para traer más niños a este mundo. Aunque supongo que habrá gente que se reproduzca por eso, como una especie de seguro contra el arrepentimiento futuro.

Lo único que me parecía tan impensable como irme era quedarme. No quería destrozar nada ni a nadie. Sólo quería marcharme silenciosamente por la puerta de atrás, sin discusiones ni secuelas, y no parar de correr hasta llegar a Groenlandia.

So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.