Quotes About Reflection

Whoever I was before is no one I ever got to know.

No one would have liked that. Maybe I liked it even less. Here we go again, I said to myself. I said this so distinctly in my head that I heard it as well as said it. As if I was quite used to finding someone with no sense of boundaries in my space, fiddling with my things and breaking most of them. Here we go again

I DIDN'T KNOW what she was thinking or feeling. Her body had become unfamiliar to me. And yet, at the very same time, I recognized everything about her. My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my only red poker chip. As if I were looking in a mirror.

What have you learned? my father asked, and I didn't have the words then, but, in retrospect, the lesson seemed to be that what you accomplish will never matter so much as where you fail.

I wasn't happy, exactly, but I was remembering how happiness felt.

What did it mean, all this personal looking backward? What were people hoping to find? What bearing, really, did their ancestry have on who they were now?

My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face.

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off.

Svatko misli o tom kako promijeniti svijet, ali nitko ne misli kako promijeniti sebe.

We sat around our own table, an island of sad reflection in an ocean of merry din.

to me." She struck a pose. "And never see you again?" "Aa, so you are planning

It is an unwise man who constantly looks into the past to condemn himself. You breathe life today, and it is what you do now that will see you through to tomorrow.

So many people have the TV or radio constantly turned on for company, or spend their time reading trashy novels, aimlessly surfing the Net, and so on. Then suddenly one day you are old or sick and you realize you have done nothing with your life. All your thoughts are other people's thoughts and you have no idea who you really are or what the purpose of your life might be.

Your body is the temporary temple of your Spirit. What you keep around you in the extended temple of your home needs to change as you change and grow, so that it reflects who you are. Particularly if you are engaged in any kind of self-improvement work, you need to update your environment regularly. So get into the habit of leaving a trail of discarded clutter in your wake, and start to think of it as a sign of your progression!

There is meaning in the dark corners of human life and in that meaning lies hope

If we give ourselves permission to say this death justifies that one, then we truly are lost.

When I get to the end of my life, I want to be able to look back and know that my being here made things better - Daphne

it at the same time. Dreaded the pain of looking at

the best way to stop worrying about your inevitable demise is to dwell on it morbidly until you're so bored that you forget it.

Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but memories.

It was no more than a single grain of sand from a mountain of sins Halsey yeah to atone for, and it didn't change a thing for Kurt, but she had to start somewhere.

What happens to people when they realize they're never going to die? Wow. The whole human existence is predicated on inevitable death.

The man hesitated and then reached across to shake Ordo's hand, surrendering soft pale civilian fingers to a black gauntlet. The look on his face said clearly that he hadn't expected to find flesh and blood inside the droid-like shell, or to retrieve his hand uncrushed afterward. "My pleasure, sir," Ordo said. It was unusually quiet in the EasyRide after that. At least the reality had registered on them.

Imagine if we all walked around looking at strangers and thinking, You could have been my son or daughter. Imagine.