Quotes About Reflection

We can raise the teaching profession by sharing what works, by taking the best of what we do and hanging it on the virtual wall.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."

Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

When you find youself in a hole - stop digging.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me; I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved.

Never miss a good chance to shut up." ? Will Rogers

Where I come from if a man can't think of anything to pray about offhand, why, there is no need of him praying.

We're all in the end-of-your-life book-club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

What are you reading? isn't a simple question when asked with genuine curiosity; it's really a way of asking, Who are you now and who are you becoming?

books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval...

What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?

If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.

I read to live. I read for life.

We were terrified to stop, stop anything, and admit that something was wrong. Activity, frenzied activity, seemed to be the thing we all felt we needed. Only Dad slowed down, and that wasn't until he was trapped in a hospital getting intravenous antibiotics. Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.

Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio W. H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts," from Collected Poems Jane Austen Russell Banks, Continental Drift Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, translated by Alison Anderson Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader The Holy Bible Elizabeth Bishop Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives, translated by Natasha Wimmer

He's also able to accept death. He's not happy about it, but he's perfectly calm. When I stop all this treatment, it will be because it's time to stop.

I realized then that for all of us part of the process of mom's dying was mourning, not just her death, but also the death of our dreams of things to come. You don't really lose the person who has been.