Quotes About Reflection

It was the oldest friends who mattered most. With each passing year, Paulette realized this more deeply. She thought of her borther Roy, retired to Arizona, to golf with other men who were also - she loathed the expression - senior citizens. Roy had arrived in Phoenix with an entire life behind him, a career, a marriage; to his new friends he'd always be old.

That night he'd glimpsed, however briefly, a sweetly exalted human happiness he'd only read about, Art who'd spent his whole life reading about apparitions. In those few moments he knew genuine tenderness, given and received. He experienced grace. If it sounds like heresy, I am far past caring: for my brother, making love to Kath was a reflection of divine love, a brief flash of God alive in the world.

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.

If people around me aren't moved by my Christ or my church, then I must be doing a miserable job of representing them both.

We cannot think our way into a new kind of living. We must live our way into a new kind of thinking.

Days seem to be their prettiest when they die? I wonder, will I?

If she had access to a mirror, a palette, an easel and paint, a woman could endlessly reflect on her face, and, by extension, her place in the world.

As psychoanalysis has made so clear, human beings move through life dictated to by a mess of conscious and unconscious memories, acts and feelings. The language of art is a reflection of this: it's one of slippages, ambiguities and contradictions that are communicated via images, which are, by their very nature, indeterminate.

in many cultures, mirrors were believed to be magical objects that granted access to supernatural knowledge.

Everything she did, even paintings without any humans in them, can be read as a variation on a self-portrait – they're all reflections of her inner world, a place of acute sensitivity not only to the people but to the places she came into contact with.

Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'

The past is life mistakes, Much like a picture is like the past. A picture is a memory of a moment in time one can have in a physical form, the now,being a current view of ones present past Fast forward to a a projected future.

But no matter where I went, what I was running from would still be with me—Kat. She wasn't just back in the house, in that bed. She was with me now, inside me. And there was no outrunning that.

Life is precious and we don't realize that at the time.

There is a bright full moon, and boats in the harbor are lit up and dancing in the inky water.

I didn't think I would end up here." "Me neither.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent.

How am I chang'd! Alas, how am I grown A frightful spectre to myself unknown! For

I doubt if he himself leaks even enough to piss more than once a year on his birthday,

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

It's the messy parts that make us human, so we should embrace them too —pat ourselves on the back for getting through them rather than being angry for having gotten into them in the first place

Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.