Quotes About Reflection

And once we die, what we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. [Pericles]

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

memoirs are not open doors into another person's house. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage.

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau

This isn't how I imagined our lives would be when I was Queen of Libya and you King of Armenia.

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your

Later that evening, Norma Jeane said good night to Bill and returned home. Standing before a mirror she picked up a lipstick and scribbled, 'This is the end of Norma Jeane.' Marilyn Monroe was born.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

Money and sex are two of the most challenging aspects of life to declutter, but extremely worth the trouble.

Moving closer to the edge, I peered down. The water was glassy green, extraordinarily clear. I experienced the feeling I sometimes get when I'm on a bridge or a railway platform. Rationally, you know that you've no intention of stepping off the bridge or the platform - or this ice floe - but you're aware that you could, and that the only thing stopping you is your will.

DEATH freezes everything. Whatever you did or didn't do, whatever you said or left unsaid: none of that is ever going to change. You have no more chances to say sorry or make things right. No more chances for anything except regret.

El Bosque tenía todo lo que uno podía desear. Hasta entonces nunca se había dado cuenta de lo mucho que lo apreciaba.

How do you know all these things?' He shrugged. 'It's boring being a goatherd. Nothing to do except watch goats. If I hadn't watched other creatures, I'd have gone mad.

But the thing to remember, Jack, is that it's only an echo. It's like a footprint or a shadow. It can't hurt you. All it can do is frighten.

Maybe there was symmetry everywhere, and the patterns of our days held no less certainty than the mathematical patterns of the universe. Maybe, in order to see the patterns, one simply needed to take a few steps back, turn the page upside down, approach everything from a different angle.

I've thought far more about marriage in recent months than I ever did before. What is the marriage contract? The general assumption we have about marriage is that it involves two people building a life together. But what I wonder is this: Does it require each person to give up the life they built before? Must we shed our former selves? Do we have to give up that which was once important to us as a sacrifice to the gods of marriage?

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I took it back: he didn't just hate himself down deep. He'd made plenty of room in there for me, too.

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

Hmph. She talked about Cameron's daddy like he's the only one in the wrong. I mean, sometimes you got to wonder who's got the biggest problem: the fool or the one who fell for him?

Listen, what I learned through my experiences was that I want somebody who knows the Lord and loves Him so much that everything he does reflects his relationship with Christ.

Father, forgive me for neglecting to meet with You every day. Time away from You is time away from my source. I need You, Lord. Especially now. Help.

Of all the changes in my life since becoming a mother, the lack of quiet time with God was the one that discouraged me most. Going to church on Sunday and most Wednesdays was inspiring, yet I felt like I was running on spiritual fumes most of the week. My relationship with God seemed like a series of snippets whispered throughout the day. Text messages. No conversation. No intimacy.