Quotes About Reflection

FEEL SAD, NOT MAD Imagine how painful and miserable someone's life must be to have time to be that mean.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. Richard Bach

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?" Shannon L. Alder

She sighed again, wondering how she'd be described as a character in one of her much-loved romance books.

Soon I will die, he said, and then what everyone has been so afraid of for so long will have finally happened, and then everyone can rest.

But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you.

What happened in our house taught my brothers how to leave, how to walk down a sidewalk without looking back.

Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

The current of memory carried her along, futher, futher. This time, she didn't resist.

One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

A family is a cracked mirror that nevertheless reflects us accurately.

Suicide is a permanent question.

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

The philosophical system with which we try to interpret contents of the unconscious is open to still more, and that is the way in which an interpretation will not have a destructive effect. One should keep to what is possible and infer at the same time that there is a lot more to it so that there is room for growth.

When someone you love, dies, it's as if they leave you with half shares of your life together. The person you were in their eyes dies with them.

Great results begin with great questions.

Learner/Judger Questions We all ask both kinds of questions, and we have the power to choose which ones to ask in any moment.

Are you willing to take responsibility for your mistakes — and for the attitudes and actions that led to them?' Then he said, 'Are you willing — however begrudgingly — to forgive yourself, and even laugh at yourself?' And finally, 'Will you look for value in your experiences, especially the most difficult ones?' Bottom line, 'Are you willing to learn from what happened and make changes accordingly?

Blame keeps us stuck in the past. Responsibility paves the path for a better future. Blame

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor Frankl

the best way to solve a problem is to first come up with better questions.

Scars are especially useful as historical markers when one's own memory and consciousness cannot be trusted.