Quotes About Reflection

Sometimes things end, even if you don't want them to.

Even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they mean something to us.

Like everything else that doesn't last, today is gone now, but it was a pretty good day. The best I've had in months.

It can get kind of nerve-racking when you realise how isolated you are from the actual world here. But all the scary stuff doesn't really compare to getting lost in your own mind.

By the way? For what it's worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet— there is such a thing as a Ariana Grande day.

We tread water, looking at each other, and suddenly there's not enough water in the world to clean away my dirt thoughts.

I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way.

If I keep ahead of everything, and that includes me, I should be able to stay awake and here, and not just semi-here but here as in present as in now.

You can't do this to me. You were the one who lectured me about living. You were the one who said I had to get out and see what was right in front of me and make the most of it and not wish my time away and find my mountain because my mountain was waiting, and all that adds up to life. But then you leave. You can't just do that. Especially when you know what I went through losing Eleanor.

Better to keep the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words separate, where you can watch them and make sure they don't surprise you when you're not expecting them.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery—always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Like everything else that doesn't last, today is gone now, but it was a pretty good day.

Do I feel I should be punished? Yes. Why else would I have given myself bangs?

You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

Have you ever done something you regretted?' 'Does last year's school picture counts?

It's so lovely to be lovely in Private.

Escrever. (...) Ao longo das linhas, aceitar todo e qualquer pensamento (não tenha medo deles, independente do que sejam).

When you have done everything else, perfecting a conventual herb-garden is a fine and satisfying thing to do. He could not conceive of coming to this stasis having done nothing else whatever.

Grandchildren by proxy, Cadfael reflected, might be a rare and pleasurable recompense for a celibate prime. As for old age, he had not yet begun to think about it; no doubt it had its own alleviations.

Thinking is best after prayer, but will be none the worse for a meal and a glass of wine.

the river, Ruald had two

There was a time when I'd hoped… But it would never have done. I was an old fool ever to think of it, and it's better this way.

There's a lot of merit in silence.

Only in hindsight can we see that out fears and worries were unwarranted, that insecurities and doubts were just illussions, or that we should have taken a risk or dared something new sooner.