Quotes About Reflection

I secretly worship God," Hunter wrote near the end of his life. "He had the good judgment to leave me alone to write a few genuine black-on-white pages by myself.

I've gone to the bottom of the well," Hunter said, "and the animal's not down there.

I am aware that I am aware

Start admiring the vastness of the forest and a tree will surely fall on you, bashing your skull for the crime of perspective.

So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying. - from the story "De Composition

Kata-kata yang ingin kau ucapkan sekarang... Jangan katakan. Dan itu, sobatku, adalah rahasia panjang umur.

Those words you want to say right now? Don't say them." He smiled and cuffed my cheek with something close to real affection. "And that, my friend, is the secret to living a long life.

I can still feel it. I don't mean 'in my tender heart, it still pains me so.' I can still feel what he did, in my body, standing here, right now.

What is a crow but a dove dipped in pitch? And what is a man but a dog cursed with words?

Letting go is not for the purpose of forgetting or forgiving the past, it is about releasing the energy of the past to give us back our lives in the present which is necessary to deliver us into a new future" (Holloway 2002).

Her mother had once told her that one could run away from home, from husband, from children, from trouble, but it was impossible to run away from oneself. "You always have to take yourself with you," she said. And now, bending towards her mother, Hope wondered if in death you were finally able to run away from yourself. This might be death's gift. She knew that the thought wasn't terribly profound, but she was moved by the notion of completion and of escape.

They paint what they see and we paint what we are watching.

That was what getting old was all about, she'd begun to realize: a growing heap of memories piling up around you, a Mount Everest of memories. The very opposite of being young, when the ground ahead lay level and bare, a vast open space that stretched on forever and ever, waiting to be explored.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Place the tip of a stick in a clear brook and you'll see it "bend" underwater because the speed of light is literally slower beneath the surface than it is in air.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

Look up here, I'm in heaven! I've got scars that can't be seen I've got drama, can't be stolen, Everybody knows me now (...) This way or no way You know I'll be free Just like that bluebird Now, ain't that just like me? - Lazarus

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.

As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left?

Men wrote the Bible, but God made our consciences. Does he want them to gather dust?' There

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

It is good for me to be afflicted that I may die wholly to this world and all that is in it.

Alas, that so much of my precious time is spent with so little of God.