Quotes About Reflection

The hardest part of being a parent is accepting that not every decision you made for your children benefited them as much as you hoped it would. You do your best and pray it's enough to help them become decent, well-adjusted humans making a difference in the world.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all given one do-over in life?" she murmured. "One free pass to go back and change one action, one decision, one thoughtless word?" He gave her a searching look, as if trying to figure out what moment she would alter. Finally he nodded. "One would be a start, I suppose, though I probably could use about a half dozen free passes." "Instead, we have to do our best to live with the consequences of our choices.

You did so well today. All of you." "Thanks," Louisa said. "It's really fun. I hope we do it again next year." Not unless Hope found some other sucker to be in charge, she thought again. "I've had lots of fun, too," Olivia said.

People make mistakes. You can either let it eat away at you from the inside until you're hollowed out and have nothing good left. Or you can learn to accept that none of us can change our past. All we can do is move forward and make something better out of the rest of our days.

how could she stay? "For a long time, I thought the fact that I can't have more children was punishment for my mistakes." "I hope you know better now." "I think some things just happen. Not for a reason, not as some punishment from a higher power, not as part of some master plan. They just are.

You're the person you are today because of everything that has happened to you.

People make mistakes. You can either let it eat away at you from the inside until you're hallowed out and have nothing good left. Or you can learn to accept that none of us can change our past. All we can do is move forward and make something better out of the rest of our days

aren't we lucky that the terrible choices we made when we were young don't have to define us for the rest of our lives?

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all given one do-over in life?" she murmured. "One free pass to go back and change one action, one decision, one thoughtless word?" He gave her a searching look, as if trying to figure out what moment she would alter.

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.

I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.

Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look out my window and see burning flowers and starving armies but when I look up into the night sky I see the souls of dead heroes

i have no mind/just a series of clicks

Todo lo que nos rodea desde la cuna es un espectáculo pero la conciencia de ser espectáculo sólo se produce tras observar aquel cuerpo desnudo que por primera vez es observado desde el lado de la desnudez.

Me río de mí mismo cuando soy ese infeliz que se mira el ombligo y cree saber mucho de la vida.

Entre más recordamos, más cerca estamos de la muerte.

El destino es una palabra enorme que desprecié durante mis años de juventud; en cambio, en mis años maduros, la invoco a menudo, he entendido que el destino es el lugar donde está ocurriendo la vida.

El arte de la noche ha invadido el arte de la vida.

Vendrán más años malos y nos harán más ciegos. Vendrán más años ciegos y nos harán más malos. Vendrán más años tristes y nos harán más fríos y nos harán más secos y nos harán más torvos.

Life can be infernally complex,' he said.

Take your time, now,' said Mr. Blood. 'I never knew speed made by overhaste.

Do you wonder that they will

In my humble way I am a student of man, and some years ago I made the discovery that he is most intimately to be studied in the reflections of him provided for the theatre.

For, as Andre-Louis so truly says, there is no worse hell than that provided by the regrets for wasted opportunities.