Quotes About Reflection

The way in which we go to the grocery store may tell us everything about the way in which we live a life. The way we tend the life force in a plant may be the way we tend our own life force. We are exquisitely coherent.

We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better.

Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all that rushing.

What we don't often realize is that stopping to rest is also an act of worship. It's not just something we do for ourselves—something we get to decide if and when it is needed. It's something we do with God, honoring Him.

When we live His ways, we outline His image and trace the truths of His kingdom before a watching world.

The Author of life who pens your story observes each time you discuss Him and honor His name before others!

Must every action—every word and thought—recall Alena? Swimming, currents, beaches, exhibitions, artists, parties. How long until my bodily presence had half the substance her absence did?

The ferret sat and examined his foot "What in the world am I?" he asked, alarmed "I look like some sort of rodent !

I'll always wonder what could have been with Steven Warner, but he never showed any interest outside of friendship so I never pushed it.

In the end, he somehow ended up looking like her father. Even with the dark bloody hair, pimple face and thin, crooked smile, he, like everything else, eventually looked like her father in the end.

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

Hurt me once, shame on you; hurt me twice, shame on me.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people stay for a while, and give us a deeper understanding of what is truly important in this life. They touch our souls. We gain strength from the footprints they have left on our hearts, and we will never EVER be the same.

Leaning to your true feelings isn't something you're born knowing how to do. It requires practice. The great news is that these skills are like muscles, the more you use them, the stronger they get. ... And trust me, the more you listen, the louder that voice will get.

A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.

she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader—because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see

Follow your inclination. It will take you to the thoughts you'd never known you'd had.

Yes, we can all cart our fractured selves along as we move through our lives. But we can choose whether we keep plodding along the same rutted road, or take a turn we'd never thought was ours to take.

I was lonely. I felt it deeply and permanently, that this state of being on my own might never disappear. But I welcomed the lonliness, which had everything to do with being anonymous. It's never lonliness that nibbles away at a person's insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone.

Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

If answers are the destination, questions are the oars.

I was tired of being me.

My best day ever. Got up. Had breakfast. Came to school. Bored, as usual. Wishing I wasn't there, like usual. Kids ignoring me, suits me fine. Sitting with the other retards—we're so special. Wasting my time. Yesterday was the same, and it's gone, anyway. Tomorrow may never come. There is only today. This is the best day and the worst day. Actually it's crap.

Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?