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Quotes About Reflection

My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.
~ Mason Cooley
Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
~ May Sarton
We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.
~ Mother Mary Francis
I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
~ Naomi Benaron
When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.
~ Mitch Albom
I want people to think about the connection between mothers and daughters. I like the idea of continuity of life and generations.
~ Natasha Gregson Wagner
The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.
~ Steve Martin
They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.
~ Philippa Gregory
You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.
~ Patty Hearst
I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.
~ William Butler Yeats
My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.
~ R. Kelly
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
~ Rachel Cusk
I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
~ Rachel Cusk
When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.
~ Ridley Pearson
I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.
~ Rocco DiSpirito
I look a lot like my father and his mother.
~ Sade Adu
Pick up a thing, " [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.
~ Lita Burke, Old Bony Blue Eyes
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
~ Will Rogers
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
~ Mike Murdock
I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
~ Abraham Maslow
Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.
~ Marvin Davis
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
~ Rachel Carson
If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
~ Mark Twain
If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
~ Nachman of Breslov