Quotes About Reflection

college education does not make one wise; it just fills your head with others' voices.

Maybe things always look different when we leave them, like a lover. Or a battleground. (Sometimes those are one and the same.)

Our thoughts are not arrows haphazardly shot out into the cosmos. They are boomerangs.

Regret is a useless emotion.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine

Is this hell, to be stuck in a continual loop of our greatest disappointments? [Richelle Bach's diary]

Einstein said that insantiy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

When you're struggling with lack, it's easy to become obsessed with all you don't have and forget what you do.

but a good writer knows when to shut up and listen.

For poetry, like life, is its own justification

Nearly a million people take their lives each year. It's not about survival; it's about finding meaning in living. Even in our suffering

A man cannot live his life by the calculations of retribution. I did what I had to do and hope the consequences are kind.

between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.' " She looked up.

How did I come to such a dark place? I don't know where my road now leads but I fear the shadowlands that lie ahead. But it is not the darkness of the path I fear. Just the loneliness of the trail.

should not surprise us that, at the end of a journey, our destination looks different than we imagined at the beginning. Everything looks different up close.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. (pg. 161)

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

Pär grinned. "What's so funny?" "You are, Bartolomeo." "Everything you've said is true," Nikos added, "but it's not that simple. Your choices, your decisions, were not necessarily the wrong choices. Sometimes, they were the right choices, the moral choices. They just didn't work out." "That's an understatement." "I'm

I drifted just outside, contemplating the dark interior.

I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned to see Father Veronica, not looking at me but gazing at the monitor with fear and wonder. "Bartolomeo

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Billy Reynolds, of Engine Co. 76, mentioned that a lot of firefighters were probably going to die today, and no one could argue the point. In fact, we let his comment just hang there in the room for a while, none of us saying anything, each of us lost in our own private thoughts, wondering which of our brothers we were about to lose, if it would be one of us.