Quotes About Reflection

Be like Allan Pearl. Sit next to the class clown and study him. Then grow up, take everything you learned, and get paid to be a real-life clown, unlike whatever unexciting thing the actual high school class clown is doing now.

Even though Mavis was my secret friend, she is the only one I hope I see again. She's the only one I wonder about. I hope she wonders about me too.

I know a small part of you thinks you could've ended up with Natalie Portman if you had played things a little differently. That's nice. You can have that. That's not hurting anybody.

I liked hanging out with my family! Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it. So, yeah, it all added up to a happy, memorable time. Even though I was never a star.

We will never come home to each other again and we will never again have each other's undivided attention. That version of our friendship is over forever.

What is fascinating to me is that divorced people tend to be the least depressing or depressed people I know. They're all unburdened and cleansed, and the wiser for it. This is the case even if they didn't initiate the divorce.

With no music to listen to, I just biked around in circles talking to myself like a kid on the cover of a Robert Cormier young adult novel,

I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.

I'll get you, you clique-y sons of bitches," I thought. You know what? I never did get them. I'm just realizing now. I should totally still get them.

If I sound bitter, that's because I'm still a little bitter.

In my thirties, I gained a sense of calm that came from professional stability and, although this is not backed by science, a general slowing of my metabolism, which is why I can gain seven pounds from eating one heavy dinner.

Network executives usually have bad taste. It's either just a reflection of what market research tells them that normal people are into, or whatever their adolescent children are obsessed with. I have so often been on the receiving end of whatever powerful network executive's children are watching that week. That

It's weird when you feel your dream slipping away from you. Especially when you have no other dreams. I was surprised that my overwhelming feeling was not sadness; it was terror. What on earth am I going to do now?

This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life.

That was the moment when I realized how cool my life is. I was trying to hit on a guy and was being interrupted by the president of the United States.

So You've Just Finished Chelsea Handler's Book, Now What?

which I would write on Sunday afternoons sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor with no pants on.

I think I love the scene because it reflects how love works. "Soul mates" is what you aim for, but soup snakes is what you get sometimes.

Like mother, like daughter? What a truly terrifying thought.

Once again, a pang of conscience tweaked the skin around my eyes.

At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.

Doesn't the expansiveness of this make you think of the good Lord? Except we know the ocean ends while He goes on forever.

I was beautiful because I'd been made in God's image. How could I not be so?

Maybe part of the problem is that you're not making enough time for reflection and solitude and prayer. Are you avoiding God, Joel? Are you trying to run from Him the way Shadow has run from us?" He