Quotes About Reflection

There comes a moment in our lives when some of the pieces of the puzzle come together - where all our past experiences, both good and bad, are brought to bear in causing us to become who God intends us to be.

There are countless reasons for reading, but when you're young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.

I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

What it must feel like to lie back with cut wrists in a warm bath, a voluptuous dwindling feeling.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

Michael Cole

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment.

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

I think much of her - I mean my mother - and of how alike we were, and how we were both destroyed by believing it was in our own hands to punish those who had done wrong to us.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds--and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.

He hated confronting those lost moments, being presented with some detail from his past and having to look on it like a stranger. It made his life feel like a made-up thing. A net full of holes.

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming to me, I expect.

It was a riddle to see a person could get what they wanted and regret it, could even regret wanting it in the first place.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to write about everything, the life we're having and the lives we might have had. I wanted to write about all the ways we might have died.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

They live in unbridled pleasure; they offend Him, without thinking that each year they are closer to death.