Quotes About Reflection

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.

Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

Things that are important to us are written in our calendars. If you want to be intentional about setting aside time to pray, you need to plan for it.

So what we are right now is a pair of dickweeds in a hotel room in Sydney. My life is royally fucked up right now and from where I'm sitting, your life is even bloody worse.

It's funny recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

There are always those people who say something like: "Debriefing? I don't need no stinking debriefing!" and we believe them. But the debriefing is not necessarily for them; it is for their buddy, partner, spouse and their children.

the majority of the learning on a tactical exercise comes afterwards in what is called an "after action review," where all the participants talk about what took place. This phase is so important that to not do it is to have essentially wasted the exercise.

killing the grunts of North Vietnam, the grunts of America had killed a part of themselves.

in killing the grunts of North Vietnam, the grunts of America had killed a part of themselves.

After the Echo

What goes on around you … compares little with what goes on inside you. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason --telling myself, "Well, at least I don't have a day job. And there is nothing wrong with that. I am not guilty of anything. Perry would see that in a minute.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?

the future is no place to place your better days

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

Don't you rob yourself of what you're feeling; don't rob yourself of all that you could be.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves Wondering if we had spent our living days well I can't believe that we would lie in our graves Dreaming of things that we might have been

strange evolution, that people have come to believe that we are its greatest achievement when really we're just a collection of cells overrating themselves

She looked out at the other trees, and she realised that her life was one of thousands, any one of which could have been her, she had grown wherever her life had taken her, she had drifted wherever the wind had blown her.

Dear Admiral Rickover, If you want to stop killing people, read this. Very respectfully, Dave Oliver Captain, US Navy

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

There are no guarantees in life, so learn from others' mistakes. Enjoy what you can, while you can. Don't let it consume you like . . . well, just let go and let life happen.

If you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results. You are where you are now financially as a sum total of the decisions you've made to this point.