Quotes About Reflection

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

Child, the more you want to hurry life up, the slower it gets.

I have no idea what my great-grandparents looked or sounded like, or the great-greats before them, back to caveman days. It's weird to think they were like me once, goofing with friends, mad at their parents, brave, scared, everything. But now they're gone too, and nobody knows or cares. So why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

Though experience should be our guide . . . and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every youthful feeling begins unworthily and ends in error. If this were the case, mankind would have perished long ago.

Reading was like visiting distant friends.

Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime's chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery.

It is comforting to see President Donald Trump as a crazy man, a one -off, an exception- not a reflection on us or on our democracy. But in ways I never anticipated, his rise was absolutely predictable and a mirror on our soul.

O motherwhat have I left outO motherwhat have I forgotten

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction

A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

Folks, the trajectory we were on prior to the virus was taking us towards destruction. God has intervened. He's given us a chance for some personal evaluations, some individual reflection to turn our hearts and our faces to Him.

A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

They know what to expect from us. They know that eventually we will "help" them yet again. The bitter truth for many of us is that we haven't been helping; we've been enabling. So instead of praying to God to stop the pain, remove the difficulty, or change the lives of our adult children, we must rise up and pray for something entirely different. We must pray for the courage to look deep in our own hearts and souls. We must pray for the strength to

Why did she feel like she was still broken?

Death is funny in that it brings out the best and the worst in people. It casts light on the truth and makes life blindingly clear. The reality was starting to set in.

The moments in life where everything is as it should be, are precious.

People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.

The thing is, I've been thinking a lot about before . The time before the first thing I remember. Before didn't hurt. I don't think this will hurt, either. My ending, I mean. I'll just 'not be' again, I suppose.

Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.