Quotes About Reflection

Then she remembered. The apple. Reaching over to her bag on the passenger seat with her right hand, left hand on the wheel, Grace grasped the apple like a baseball and brought it to her face. Again, she held it under her nose and took in its scent. Wow. Even with the wind blowing around her, the fragrance was full and lush and sweet- though not overtly, like so many of today's commercially bred grocery store apples, but deep, dark, sugared, as the night in a Caribbean cane field.

And just stared, unmoved, as though watching a world in which she was no longer an inhabitant.

Actually, 'worthless piece of shit' if you think about it, suggests the possibility of the opposite.

He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.

The world is dark and quiet, except for the soft rustling of leaves and the cry of a a wolf in the distance.

And above all else, remember that the end of a movie (or a TV show, or a play, or a book) is never really the end.

I don't want to start the rest of my life having regrets.

You can't forget the past.

You can't look back. Nothing you can do to change it. Only forward.

Five years from now, we'll all be erased," Jocelyn says, and we all sort of laugh. It's not funny, and yet it kind of is.

We imprint the lost on our hearts.

What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.

As she as she

There's no point rehashing how we all got here. What's done is done.

Sin cuestionarte dónde has estado, nunca entenderás hacia dónde debes ir.

Instead, she curled up into ball and stared at the pink wallpaper where a potrait of her as a child stared back at her.That girl was smiling and happy.She had a family. Now she had none.

People may hate us because of Jesus, but they should never hate Jesus because of us. The way we treat others should lead them to only one conclusion: "If this is how Jesus loves, then I'm in.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

I'm going to bed tonight grateful for warmth, an advantage so expected it barely registers. (…) I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic. We default to our lifestyles, enjoying our privileges tra la la, but a fast interrupts that rote trajectory. Jesus gets a fresh platform in the empty space where indulgence resided.

For Jesus, who lived so lightly on this earth, He didn't even have a place to lay His head. I want so deeply to be like You.

We "love" people the way we "love" ourselves, and if we are not good enough, then no one is.

If we've been in church for years yet aren't full, are we really hungry for more knowledge? In our busy lives, do we really need another program or event? Do we really need to be fed more of the Word, or are we simply undernourished from an absence of living the Word? Maybe we love God, but are we loving others? If our faith is about us, then we are not just hungry—our spirits are starving.