Quotes About Reflection

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can't realize what is already here, outside the car window?

Being alone was lonely, but there was an even greater loneliness sometimes when he was surrounded by a lot of other people who were constantly making demands of him. He needed a break. C

What is it you say now, what peace is there to be made in the last minutes of the last day that will mark the before and after of your life until then, the day that will change everything for both of you, the living and the dead?

Wisdom begins at the end.

Honesty can siphon off a few regrets and resentments if you tap in to it. Let that sink in.

I ain't shit! I ain't shit! shouts your brain, and this place proves the point.

Ree sat chilled inside her squat tent. To occupy her mind, she decided to name all the Miltons: Thump, Blond, Catfish, Spider, Whoop, Rooster, Scrap… Lefty, Dog, Punch, Pinkeye, Momsy… Cotton, Hog-jaw, Ten Penny, Peashot…

I pulled the rearview down and looked at myself in the mirror for a spell, trying to spot virtues.

Blanchette stared toward the room in which Rankin's future had been diverted. Yes, he could've made it, all right, Blanchette thought. Not with his next breath or two, but by the time he was fifty, fifty-five. It was up to someone else now. The end of his cigar had a thumb of ash on it, so Blanchette flicked it on the rug, then rubbed it in with his foot. He looked

The universe sometimes makes war seem a mere chigger in comparison, but that is in no way soothing to one who has the itch.

A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Why aren't we all like that old bird?

It is certainly to be regretted that we have so many things to do and our business day is so fully occupied that somehow or other we seem to make mistakes which could have been avoided if we had really spent the time necessary to think the matter through to a logical conclusion.

watched John and I

Enough navel gazing! Lift my chin, God, and focus my eyes on you. Let me take all the little anxieties of my day and all the big fears of my sleepless nights and see them for what they are: a chance for the devil to monopolize the conversation inside my head. I don't want him in my head, God. I want you there. Please be with me. Act

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

Age eventually catches up and forces a person to reckon with what is important in life and what counts as achievement.

The peaceful side of nature, speaks to our soul in whispers."

over the realities.

Every day, I try to be my own parent - the parent I never had.

I don't resemble my mom at all. Mom made beauty seem like a magic trick I'd never learn. I think there was a part of me that was trying, in those moments, to know her deeply, deep enough so that I could one day bring to light any small part of me that was hers. —

As my father once quipped, the early history of this country is the story of James Madison talking to himself.

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.