Quotes About Reflection

Caitlin isn't someone to get over. She's someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. You can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

For the rest of her life, every lovers' quarrel would remind Vix of this night, this night when anger crackled in the air. She vowed then and there no guy would ever make her feel that bad.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Writing is the voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks out hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.

There are no accidents in memory, for memory has its own reasons and its own logic. What I remember is what happened to me as I best recall it.

There is an old saying that every time you sigh, a drop of blood falls from your heart. It seems I sigh more now than I ever did, and that probably means my heart has lost many tear-shaped drops. I have lived my life, as we all do, between these sighs, between these drops of blood.

Leonard (Cohen) never broke my heart, but his songs have, every time I sing or hear one of them. As Leonard says, "There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.

For songs are the heart of our memory and they let us live the search for meaning in our lives again and again.

I did not drink because of my problems. I had problems because I drank. It would take me twenty-three years to figure that out.

I didn't know it was the booze, always the booze, that brought on the darkness.

A classic song has much mystery as well as mastery in its form; it sits still in the mind, throwing light on the past and the future, often bringing tears to our eyes, for it reaches into deep emotional wells that are often forgotten in the rush of the moment. The songs that touch me are on a very high level in terms of form and classic structure, and "Both Sides Now" has all of the requirements to make it irresistible.

Most malls are haunted. Did you know that?

It's unseemly to be late to your own funeral.

Nick, go get ready for your funeral.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

engaging with a work of ancient philosophy can be a two-way street; bringing it into a discussion can enrich that discussion, which also encouraging us to see the work in light of that discussion.

Socrates identified the practice of philosophy with personal discussion and questioning, refusing to write anything.

It seems worthwhile, then, to begin with virtue, rather than with a type of ethical theory, and to see what kind of account can be produced.

The first ethical move is not to abstract from my individual context, still less to discount it, but rather to understand what it consists in, to achieve self-knowledge as far as I can, and then to think about how best to live my life in these circumstances.

We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.

The trick is to metabolize pain as energy. Learn, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: What next? instead of Why me?

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

Boredom is just "What's the use?" in disguise. And "What's the use?" is fear, and fear means you are secretly in despair. So put your fears on the page. Put anything on the page. Put three pages of it on the page.

The reward for attention is always healing.