Quotes About Reflection

all got something to clean up in our lives.

She certainly hadn't been spending as much time with the Lord as she used to—not with starting the business and working seemingly twenty-five hours a day to stay on top of deadlines. No wonder I'm near bankrupt.

How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?

She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.

Maybe you're repeating what you haven't repaired.

Part of checking in with yourself is becoming aware of what thoughts you're having over and over again. These are usually signs of agreements you've made about yourself internally: spiritually, mentally, and emotionally.

What is the reality of a drag queen? my stranger had asked. What indeed? I thought. What is the reality of any identity?

After the day's active life, we spend at least a few hours quietly to develop our aesthetic, theoretical, and spiritual understanding of the way of life. By either reading, writing, performing, or thinking and meditating, we should continuously refine our personality and deepen our understanding of art, literature, science, philosophy, religion, and various other arts.

And so the months and the years have gone by, but little has turned out well for me. Each new year in turn has failed to bring happiness. Indeed, as I think of the unsatisfying events I have recorded here, I wonder whether I have been describing anything of substance. Call it, this journal of mine, a shimmering of the summer sky.

Love Thinking, thinking thus, loving thus, there is no sleep, I see him, we meet, to be woken from that dream that is suffering indeed.

It was her street, her neighborhood, her life. She knew that someday in the future it would not be hers anymore. But she would remember it, she would treasure it, she would miss it. She would hold it in her heart. She knew that someday she would look back at this very moment and miss it....Never had life seemed more beautiful and more sad.

Fitz feels as if he ought to say something, but he's not sure what. He feels a stupid urge to to apologize, for what exactly, he doesn't know. He knows that he says "sorry" a lot.

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective it reminds you to feel.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be involved with what you have done.

When I'm 33, I quit.

If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!

If I knew I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

I never knew how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world. But now I understand.