Quotes About Reflection

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

All experience helps when you write.

My experience working with a major label was not all bad, I was blessed to go through that experience, and I know what to do during the next time around.

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

Every experience that you go through kinda shapes who you are.

Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.