Quotes About Reflection

I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.

I freed myself in order to be alone. For me freedom means solitude, a solitude full of walks in the country, solitary strolls through unfamiliar cities, books scattered around my bed at night, lying open at random pages.

When I was a child, I first noticed that neither history as I was taught it nor the stories I was told seemed to lead to me. I began to fix them.

We spend more time doing dishes than we do making love, but which figures prominently in the story of our lives?

In the death of every creature we have loved, we taste our own.

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people

Avril raised his fine head. 'Yes,' he said. 'My poor Margaret.' His face changed only for an instant. The grief upon it appeared and passed like the shadow of a leaf in the wind, but its intensity was so great that Luke, who was still a young man, was dismayed to learn that it could exist.

weal on his face. 'I'm inclined to agree with you,' he

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

So the letters took a long time to get there, and the replies even longer to get back, and all the news was out of date; and this gave his correspondence a peculiar timeless quality which was very soothing.

a person should always put his heart in order before falling asleep. Then he will be unencumbered by fear.

What are true things, and what are not? What is good, and what is rubbish? Everything you encounter in life, everything you read, you have to use your own noggin.

My father told me that a person should always put his heart in order before falling asleep. Then he will be unencumbered by fear.

So you're going to think about it?

Todo viaje hombre adentro tiene su contrapartida, es decir, el viaje mujer afuera.

I have cuts and bruises that do not map a course.

Showing off was permitted, even encouraged, only if the result reflected well on your family, their friends, and your collective ancestors.

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Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

With her heels kicking the stone's side high above the ground, Branza was a girl again, though she was full-grown long ago; though the years had accumulated behind her in their great pointless pile.

While you wait for a grander plan to emerge in your head, a thousand small choices make up your life, none of them honorable.

Seals do not sit about and tell, the way people do, and their lives are not eventful in the way people's are, lines of story combed again and again, in the hope that they will yield more sense with every stroke.

I think sometimes the biggest influence isn't what's present in your life, but what's absent. Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than the noise.