Quotes About Reflection

To know which path to take, it helps to take a few wrong ones.

Do not watch TV aimlessly. Do not go on social media aimlessly. Always be aware of what you are doing, and why you are doing it. Don't value TV less. Value it more. Then you will watch it less. Unchecked distractions will lead you to distraction.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.' – Socrates (after losing our quiz!!!!)

One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips and unpicked flowers.

The key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don't become them.

No, she felt homesick, not for a place, but for a time. Maybe it wasn't homesickness at all. Maybe it was timesickness. She just missed those days when she was younger - seven, six, five, four years old - when she didn't know so much about the world. She missed, most of all, her mother.

All a writer can do is provide a match, and hopefully a dry one. The reader has to strike the flame into being.

One life of sadness was enough. What is the point of risking more?

The main advantage of books over life is that they can be redrafted and redrafted, whereas life, alas, is always a first draft.

A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more.

I was already feeling a kind of homesickness for a present I was still living

It wasn't just the loss of people I had known but also the loss of myself. The loss of who I had been when I had been with them.

You're overthinking this, Nora,' said Ravi. 'I have no other type of thinking available.

Reading isn't important because it helps to get you a job. It's important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you're given. It is how humans merge.

Sip, don't gulp.

once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about. —Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling.

I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough. Those reasons can stem from the past—the people who raised us, maybe, or friends or lovers—or from the future—the possibilities we would be switching off.

Illness has a lot to teach wellness. But when I am ill I forget these things. The trick is to keep hold of that knowledge. To turn recovery into prevention. To live how I live when I am ill, without being ill.

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

Don't feel guilty about being idle. More harm is probably done to the world through work than idleness. But perfect your idleness. Make it mindful.

So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate term and found it. 'A load of bullshit.

40 pieces of helpful advice: No. 31 - Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.

It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.