Quotes About Reflection

Life could not be lived backward. There was no undoing the regret, but she could make one last attempt to seek forgiveness.

But there's nothing like the silence of early morning. Your father used to love to sit on the back porch with his first cup of coffee, just gazing out at the hills.

Life was filled with so many twists and turns, like the sides of a prism, giving off light; what seemed wrong before seemed almost right when viewed from a different angle.

Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

Mary Carolyn Waldrep

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend the time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

It mocked us, the beautiful Yesterday; It left us poorer. Oh, never mind! In the fair Tomorrow, far away, It waits the joy that we failed to find.

Upon the lonely shore I lie, And gaze along its level sands. Still from the sea steals out the cry I left afar in crowded lands.

Now he watched the two of them, joined together against a troubled world, and he knew the lack in his own life.

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

Do you regret having been by my side? You forgot what we were feeling inside. Now I have to forget I love you.

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

They say that time heals all wounds but all it's done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you.

Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord.

When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word, when it ceases to be a just a measurement of time, but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts, that is a reflection of true love.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.