Quotes About Reflection

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.

I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.

Mark Oppenheimer

Replaying her words in my head, I could feel my face redden again. I wanted to flush my head down the toilet.

In life things often go wrong, and the future rarely happens the way you think it will.

But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on callused palms. In the forest, as if sensing my plight, wolves howled nocturnal laments. The magnificent lunar lullabies of my lupine brethren wooed me into a deep and cleansing sleep.

In these times of rampantly increasing inequality, I would love to see a truly great social novel … books that really try to tell us how we're living now ... holding a mirror up to our society ... we can't think about trying to change our society before we understand it.

Oh, we are in an angsty mood tonight!" "True, true. And what good does it do? Maybe 'we' think too much, in between bouts of not thinking enough." "I think you've just written out the recipe for being human.

So difficult people don't just come into our lives randomly. We are drawn to them, or they are drawn to us, to help us learn our spiritual lessons. They appear in our lives because they have certain qualities that can help us on our spiritual journey. Difficult people have just what we need to help us overcome our character flaws. We

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.

On every long run that has gone right, there comes a point where thinking stops and thoughts begin.

The most important way of remembering someone is by being the person they made us — at least in part — and living the life they have helped shape. Sometimes they are not worth remembering. In that case, our most important existential task is to expunge them from the narrative of our lives. But when they are worth remembering, then being someone they have helped fashion and living a life they have helped forge are not only how we remember them they are how we honour them.

The meaning of life — that is something for a simpler time.

Running, I shall argue, is a way of understanding what is important or valuable in life.

On the long run, there is an experience of freedom, of a certain sort — the freedom of spending time with the mind.

Reading is to an author as listening to music is to a composer. There's music in the words.

In writing, you learn about the mystery of yourself. In reading you learn about the mystery of the world. Do both and you'll learn much.

Writing novels is really all about making people think, and even more, making them feel things.

Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein

A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.