Quotes About Reflection

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

The attraction of New Year is this: the year changes and in that change we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult however to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page. We are creatures of faith, like it or not.

Rightly understood the New Year festival is an act of faith. It is easier for the year to change than to change ourselves. But we believe that somehow, magically, one will lead to the other.

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

Greek mythology tells of a beautiful youth who loved no one until the day he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with that reflection. He was so lovesick, he finally wasted away and died, and was turned into a flower that bears his name — Narcissus.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins.

When you decide that all your experiences are practice, you are in effect saying that you are both willing and able to learn from each experience.

The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always at zero. It is ice in the veins. Its camera is an X—ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

To piss across water is to piss across your reflection

God's way of getting your attention.

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

I must be very selfish, she thought, for I want to set nothing and no one right; all I want is to be left in peace to make what I can of this problem called life for myself and my children.

How much greater and more lasting the work of man's hands and mind was than man himself. Looking up at the exquisite tracery of the vaulted roof, listening to the majestic music pealing up to join it, she felt dwarfed and humble, yet raised up in spirit beyond her own little ant hill of living.

Loneliness was not a matter of solitude but of the spirit and often much greater in company for that very reason.

Not that her life had been unhappy, it had just not been her life at all.

But two things I have ever respected are warmth and the ability to sit still." Martha

What was she, after all, except the memory of all she had done, telling her the sort of person she was and guiding her next act consistently? Without that, what was left but blind chance and leaves blown meaninglessly through the trees?