Quotes About Reflection

Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever hear or see anything as it truly is, or if a lifetime is only long enough to begin learning how to watch and listen.

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.'" He

Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.

He gazed at the table. "After Vietnam," he said at length, "I wasn't always present. That was hard, particularly on your mother. Yet there was no way out but forward. After a while, the past recedes." Meg was surprised; for her father to mention Mary McCarran was even rarer than his allusions to Vietnam.

He was no longer that boy; she was no longer that girl. But both still lived within them, she understood, and they were meeting again, deepened by all that had happened to them since, the realization of all they had missed.

the LP sleeve acquires the same scuffs, knocks and wrinkles as its purchaser. It engenders the same affection as the ageing groove. Reflective

And yet the time saved did not seem to mean additional leisure or greater opportunities for meditation and reflection. Instead, with each new wave of technology, the pace of life increased; there was more to do, more choices to make, more things to experience, and people eagerly seized upon those experiences and filled the hours that had only moments ago become empty.

Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

Snow is falling outside and all is peaceful and still. In such moments it is possible to believe that the world could still be good.

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

As you grow older, Michael, you'll learn an important lesson—that most people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.