Quotes About Reflection

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

Maybe I should stop thinking so much, and start feeling. Maybe thinking is over-rated.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

We have to use the experience. We can become either bitter or better.

We all make mistakes. Big and small. But you don't have to let them define you forever.

Sometimtes you don't even know what you really want until you get what you thought you wanted.

That's the problem with life. It rarely gives you neat decisions wrapped up in shiny paper with a bow on top. Most of the important decisions in life are messy.

You can't recapture your past anymore than you can speed up your future. Stop lamenting summer and stop trying to hurry winter. Just enjoy the fall.

Sometimes something is so badly broken you cannot recreate its original shape at all. If you try, you create a deformed, imperfect image of what you've lost; you will always compare what your creation looks like with what it used to look like.

As Cherokee writer Thomas King says, "Take it. It's yours. Do with it what you will. But don't say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You've heard it now.

keep the conversation about identity going. This is the work of psychotherapy: to learn both to assume

Does this dress make me fat?" "Of course it does. Don't you own a mirror?

Mirror, mirror, shining bright, bring more clarity to my sight.

When you lose someone who's as close as your own skin, the only place you can find him again is hidden inside your memories.

One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night.

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter. —Carl Jung

the willows, whose drooping fronds reached out to touch their own reflections.

We late-lamented, resting here, Are mixed to human jam, And each to each exclaims in fear, 'I know not which I am!' " —Thomas Hardy, "The Levelled Churchyard," 1882

You can only do things one day at a time, sport. Sometimes life is so bloody that's the only way you can get through it. But the good bit about living one day at a time is that when nice things happen, you enjoy them more than people who are always thinking about the past or the future.

Friends come and go, Lewis, but the things you learn will always be yours, to use as you will.

I did not choose this fight. But now, as I look back, I am filled with gratitude. If someone had to be taken out of the line to fight this battle, I feel gratified to have been the one.

When one contemplated Portia, when one contemplated Sharon, when one contemplated one's own apparently pointless, utterly trivial being, the questions hung all around one, as urgent as knives at the throat. But the instant one tried to grasp one of them and turn it to one's own purpose and pierce through the murk, it became blunt and useless as a piece of cardboard.

They were so pretty," she said. And then she died.

There is a wise saying that says those who forget their mistakes are doomed to repeat them.