Quotes About Reflection

I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place."

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Here's the thing: No matter where I go, sad things will happen to me, hard things. People I love will die, and sometimes I'll have to tell friends good-bye. I'll meet people who won't like me, and I'll know loneliness. I don't like it, but that's the way it is.

You never forget the love of your life, Ainsley Douglas, no matter what he did to anger you, and no matter how much time has passed.

When you lose someone you care about, it's hard to accept that the universe doesn't notice the huge void.

Should she pity the woman those eyes finally rested on? Or envy her? Beth's

Sure," she answered. "Just give me a minute." A minute to jump to my death off my balcony.

the past had been no better or worse than the present—the human brain glossed over horror and hardship and revived what it wanted to glorify.

organizations is entirely coincidental.

I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could give me - your admiration, your acceptance, your love, your forgiveness. I forgot to love you for yourself.

A broken man learned to savor what he could when he had the opportunity.

Seeking unity does not mean we abandon critical thinking.

I wished I could be a statue. I wanted to be the statue of Joan of Arc without actually having to have been Joan of Arc… And I thought, I must really hate my life if I can get jealous of a statue.

I started making a pro-and-con list in my mind. Killing myself pros: no risk of getting married and divorced again; no more New Year's Eve; no more craving phantom sex; no more underwires poking through expensive bras; no more waking up early…

One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.

i've found that letting something stay broken for a little while helps me understand it.

Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows of things gone; not just the people themselves but everything connected to them. Was this my future? Every moment, every tiny thing I saw and did and touched, weighted by loss. Every space in this house and my town and the world in general, empty in a way that could never be filled.

Then I closed my eyes. That was it. That was Before. Now here we go into After.

Everyone has a story. It's simply a question of finding it.

Now I lay facedown on the bed, sobbing for the woman who once slept here not knowing that someday one of her worst fears would come true

It's kind of amazing, how nostalgic you can feel for memories that never actually happened.

What did we do those days, stuck at home, my sons might someday ask. We lived or tolerated living. We looked away from death.

don't believe in God. But I do believe that each of us has some sort of inner dynamic, that we are not always aware of, that guides us in life to witness certain profound things. These profound things change us forever and bring us closer to our ultimate selves.