Quotes About Reflection

Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions. ~ Olivia Rutledge from The Beach House

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.

speak quietly to yourself & promise there will be better days. whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. tomorrow comes more brightly...

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

speak quietly to yourself & promise there will be better days. whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. tomorrow comes more brightly...

In the quiet of this day, may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility

A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.

The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again....

We have to be more reflective about what power is, what it is for

Polybius more than 150 years earlier

London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books or the Times Literary Supplement

recognize phrases

The road of good intentions is paved with what were foreseeable troubles. Thinking long and hard before you take the leap will save you from having to think long and hard about all the trouble you just signed on for. Warren

Why did perfect feel broken?

the things you hate are only your body being knocked about by phenomena

Sometimes it's better not to know. Nothing can change what is or what happened and digging around in the past is only going to make you miserable.

It was true that one could be more alone with someone than by oneself.

They weren't giving up their life, and yet, none of them realized they'd already done just that.

her form of prayer and her mother's were not the same. Virginia Romano recited Hail Mary's and Our Fathers, clicking rosary beads like a typist on a keyboard. Fast. Efficient. Error-free. Jenny carried on conversations, disjointed, half-formed, soulful mutterings that left her drained.

And when you look at him again, it's not the speck of drool on his pillow you see or the way his belly hangs over his pants a lot more than it used to. What you see, deep down, is the love, and the memories, and the hope. That's what makes everything worthwhile.