Quotes About Reflection

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal every flower a window opening into heaven a mirror reflecting the Creator.

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

While the days of parenting may seem so long, the years are so short.

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.

Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.

Mantras are the past & the future.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.