Quotes About Reflection

When we pass over into how a knight thinks, how a heroine behaves, and how an evildoer can regret or deny wrongdoing, we never come back quite the same; sometimes we're inspired, sometimes saddened, but we are always enriched. Through this exposure we learn both the commonality and the uniqueness of our own thoughts -- that we are individuals, but not alone.

Deep reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a connected world.

Biologically and intellectually, reading allows the species to go "beyond the information given" to create endless thoughts most beautiful and wonderful.

There are many things that would be lost if we slowly lose the cognitive patience to immerse ourselves in the worlds created by books and the lives and feelings of the "friends" who inhabit them.

communication occurs despite the solitary nature of the reading act—

Reading is an act of contemplation . . . an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction . . . it returns us to a reckoning with time.2 —David Ulin

Just as I worry that in their overreliance on external sources of information, our young will not know what they do not know, I worry equally that we, their guides, do not realize the insidious narrowing of our own thinking, the imperceptible shortening of our attention to complex issues, the unsuspected diminishing of our ability to write, read, or think past 140 characters. We must all take stock of who we are as readers, writers, and thinkers.

Sometimes you sit around Don't know what to do, don't know where you're going to All you have to be is you What else can you do.

And maybe you are starting to notice my quote on the page "Look without, and you will be fulfilled within without a doubt." I really mean that look without, without of yourself not within.

The complete answer is not in these pages, but there's enough to get you started, Mary. You're bright, sensitive, intense, and driven. That's who you are,

It's not the impression you make, it's the impression you leave. -A Tennessee woman remembering her Old Southern grandmother

Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama.

That is the purpose of museums, of course. One does not go merely to collect facts and souvenirs and picture post cards, but to enlarge one's notion of all that has been, and all that is, and all that might be. In this way we begin to understand what part each of us was born to play in the marvelous tale of existence.

I supposed this is what is meant by 'growing up'...Find out the difference between what one expected one's life would be like and how things really are" -Lady Constance

This memory was both happy and sad: happy because it was so pleasant, and sad because it made Penelope think about how much she missed Swanburne--the girls, the teachers, Miss Mortimer. Or perhaps it was her own much younger self, that pint-sized person whom she could never be again, whom she missed. It was hard to say.

There is no alarm clock like embarassment.

Busy hands and idle minds have knitted many a sweater; Busy minds and idle hands have knitted many a brow.

Agatha Swanburne - "Morning may not put your problems in a new light, but it at least puts them in a new day.

Agatha Swanburn - "A journey of a thousand miles is best spent napping.

us," she thought, "or at least some bits of cheddar

But, Lumawoo, look. No motto.

Forgive me for being at my toilette,

I'm sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment.

What you think about day and night forms your character and personality. When walking on the street, we sometimes encounter a person of striking spiritual beauty. It's as if the noble thoughts they think every day are spontaneously conveyed to us. The way you think determines exactly what you become.