Quotes About Reflection

The coronavirus has paralyzed the world in a way most of us have never seen in our lifetime. It's chilling.

I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Being skint, drunk, paranoid - no, I don't wish that for myself.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Not everyone's a perfect parent, but we do learn, and we grow from that. I'm not trying to be harsh on my family because it does make them sad to think back about how they used to be and some of their choices.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

My dad being not the greatest dad in the world has made me a better parent.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.

Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot of friends die in the mountains. Will I take the same risks I took in my 20s? Probably not, but I will always push myself in the mountains.

I think there is a moment in every parent's life where we realize that we have lost ourselves a little bit. It's a moment of looking in the mirror and going, 'I need to put on some lipstick.'

Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.