Quotes About Reflection

Living with real children can be humbling. Every morning I would tell myself, "Today is going to be different

The only thing that is necessary is that we take another look at the less favored child, seek out her specialness, then reflect the wonder of it back to her.

Every time a parent says to himself, "I wish I hadn't said that. Why didn't I think to say . . . ," he automatically gets another chance. Life with children is open-ended.

the question "Why?" only adds to their problem. In addition to their original distress, they must now analyze the cause and come up with a reasonable explanation.

Living with real children can be humbling.

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?

A shared history is valuable but maybe those two weren't right for each other and they know it

I mean literally just heard

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

My bottom belly was gone! I'd contemplated having that thing sucked out many times, but if you've ever had a face-lift and a brow lift and felt the pain of that, it makes you pause before doing anything else too invasive.

The generating of any image is a process in egoless participatory response to some apparent "subject" or "subject-context". The image is not to replicate or "objectify" the apparent "subject" by means of the response. The image is the response itself—ecstatic, beyond and prior to "point of view", "object", separateness, duality, reflection, and likeness.

one must judge each situation and each action, not according to its "comfortableness" but according to whether or not it is likely to bring one nearer to that goal.

The concept of time in the Jewish way of thinking is not one of linear flow. Time is a process, in which past, present, and future are bound to each other, not only by cause and effect but also as a harmonization of two motions: progress forward and a countermotion backward, encircling and returning.

The surrender of oneself on the Sabbath is not simply a matter of no activity but of opening oneself to the influence of the higher worlds and thereby receiving the strength for all the days of the week that follow.

Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

Repentance does not bring a sense of serenity or of completion but stimulates a reaching out in further effort.

Normally, routine is the common element of daily life everywhere, the element that prevents man from reexamining his circumstances, because human beings are creatures of habit. People become accustomed to, and learn to live with, not only good things but also those that are – even in their own eyes – undesirable.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them

In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.