Quotes About Reflection

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Margaret Murphy

Nemoj ništa govoriti,

One of the hardest things to deal with in a relationship is when you can see the beautiful essence of of your partner, but your partner can't see his or her own essence - or yours.

I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.

I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought. The humor helped my mind clear, but I couldn't laugh. What would happen next?

time-out here on the edge of ourselves.

The older you get, the higher you wear your underwear. Like rings on a tree. Eighty, ninety years old, your breasts are inside them. When you die, they just pull them up over your head.

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

It's only when you grow up and step back from him–or leave him for your own home–it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it.

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

Was tomorrow going to see the end of her long-guarded virginity?

it would seem that whoever did write this book knows you very well. You appear in it, sir. As...as the hero.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

Nights and days came and passed And summer and winter and the rain. And it was good to be a little Island. A part of the world and a world of its own All surrounded by the bright blue sea.

Goodnight nobody. Goodnight mush.

Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.

I have spent all my years accepting sad truths. —Quebrado

Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.

Without even trying to be a teacher, Fredrika is teaching us, Showing us how to see things in new ways Instead of always thinking The same old thoughts That have been passed along by strangers Day after day, year after year Without any spirit of amazement Or wonder,