Quotes About Reflection

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.

It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

I wish emotional bruises healed like physical ones.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes.

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

When I'm in emotional pain, I usually embrace the pain, cry, and let it all out. Then I try to look on the bright side.

When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.