Quotes About Reflection

I moonbathed diligently, as others sunbathe.

Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story.

Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.

She didn't read to show off at book groups or for discussion. She never made a show of her erudition. She just liked to be lost.

She knew that everything he did was wrong and the fault was hers. He pulled his notebook out of his pocket, stupidly.

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

It's not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one's sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.

Time is a very healing place, one in which you can grow.

I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car

So I did indeed set out, as John Steinbeck says in his gavels with Charley, "not to instruct others but to inform myself.

To speak somewhat frankly, every boy I've known as well as killed has struck me as his corpse's baby picture.

I often half wonder why it is that life, or mine at least, seems less to change from day to day than to be solved like an equation.

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The Dark")

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Forever is a long time, but not as long as it was yesterday.

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

I write mysteries to say something, not just for entertainment

Just because The Past always hung there upon its hooks on the game-room wall, you didn't have to pull it down and use it on yourself.

Mindfulness Makes the Mystery Meaningful

Many people are so busy just doing life, getting by day to day, that they lose touch with the deeper purpose and meaning of life itself. They wander aimlessly from day to day and, as days turn into years, on the final day of their journey here, they look back and think, "That's it? Where was the juice and sweetness and meaning of being here?" Without a vision, our life's journey can seem meaningless.

How many of those dead animals you see on the highway are suicides?

I remember once my kid got in trouble for saying to his teacher, "What time is fucking recess?" and I remember thinking, "Now where would he fucking pick up something like that?

Dennis Miller