Quotes About Reflection

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I imagined were his own litmus test, saying, "If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul to lose.

Satchell Paige once posed the question, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

He didn't want to think about the past, present, or future. He didn't want to feel bad, or feel anything, so he drank some more.

Watkins, S.B.,

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.

Sometimes I think that I've never been so free as during that couple of hours when I'm trotting up the path out of the gates and turning by that bare-faced, big-bellied oak tree at the lane end. Everything's dead, but good, because it's dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive.

the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself

I wonder if I'm the only one in the running business with this system of forgetting that I'm running because I'm too busy thinking.

We die, he said. We die, I said. And knowing this how do we live? Knowing this, we live. We live.

perhaps that's the secret. Perhaps what people should really ask is, "are you content?" It's about getting in touch with reality. About balancing aspirations and actuality.

Reading American photographs is also a way of reading the past-not just the scenes recorded and the faces immobilized into permanent images, but the past as culture, as ways of thinking and feeling, as experience

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

I owe my solitude to other people.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

With our passing, might some lost contribution of ours leave the planet a bit more impoverished? It is possible that, instead of heaving a huge biological sigh of relief, the world without us would miss us?

Always ask yourself, "Would I be proud of this if it appeared all over the Internet tomorrow?

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.