Quotes About Reflection

In the eyes of the others we who met them saw ourselves. And there were demons there.

who are we, that we so conceal ourselves from ourselves?

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.

I'd rather be alone than unhappy

I can't run from myself There's nowhere to hide

There must be some place along the route, a halfway house in time, where the runners may pause and ask themselves why they run, what is the prize and is it the prize they really want?

As I continued to pray raggedly, prayer ceased to be an awkward and self-conscious act. It became a daily need to which I looked forward. If, for any reason, I were deprived of it, I was distressed as if I had been deprived of some life necessity, like water. I cannot say I changed. There tore through me a transformation with the force of a river, which, dammed up and diverted for a lifetime, bursts its way back to its true channel. I became what I was. I ceased to be what I was not.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

I'm much happier on my own. I can spend as much time with somebody as I want to spend, but I'm not looking to be with somebody forever or live with someone. I don't want somebody in my house.

This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.

Mark my words: living alone is the ultimate exploration of inner truth. It's one thing to see yourself as a web of changing relationships: to others, to society, to material things and places. It's quite another to see simply yourself, to be your own companion, to talk to yourself and answer back honestly. Your times change because others change them for you. My changes come purely from within.

I don't know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I've traveled to get here is like those interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you're not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you're going and realize that you've been traveling for a long time.

You've got to stop worrying about a choice you made fifteen years ago, because you can't change it.

One of the best things I've ever done was take a close look at my mental health and accept that I wasn't doing fine.

Look around you—everyone here has their own internal monologue.

Wesley Crusher will only live on in reruns. I will never get to bring him to life again, and that makes me a little sad. I'd like to try on his spacesuit and his oversized brain one last time and see how they fit now. After I posted that entry, the

I change from present to past tense and back again, and use an annoying passive voice throughout the whole thing.

The difference is a matter of shifts in society . . . and in me. These shifts aren't meant to be an excuse of any kind. I'm happy for the shifts, as it has brought (at least some of) the world to a more enlightened place. A place just a touch freer of bigotry and hatred, including within myself.

That includes the gross parts, which I am learning to accept (without condoning) through the words of the great Bob Ross: "You can't have light without a little darkness.

Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

When a traveller gets a thorn in his foot,' Mbejane went on softly, 'and he is wise he plucks it out – and he is a fool who leaves it and says "I will keep this thorn to prick me so that I will always remember the road upon which I have travelled." Nkosi, it is better to remember with pleasure than with pain.

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.