Quotes About Reflection

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.

I've been fortunate over the years to have been on good teams and as a result I've been able to score some goals but I wouldn't say I'm great at it.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

Many people say to me, "I saw [Miral] and it really stayed with me. I woke up the next day and really thought about it, and have been thinking about it for awhile." That was my goal.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.

I do think about marriage, but it's not the end-all goal.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

My rights, my wrongs, I write 'til I'm right with God.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

When someone offends me, I think it's a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.

What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

Every day, God has something to say to you. Even when He seems to be quiet, God is still saying something.

Believe in the whisperings of God to your own heart.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

I'd rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'