Quotes About Reflection

And so...we prayed. And I added a silent prayer of my own, giving God thanks for the blessing of my father.

My stories wrap around me like a cozy quilt, and sometimes I long to pull that quilt over my head and pin the blanket shut, allowing me to immerse myself in the world vivid in my mind.

I reached for the notebook which was always close by. All thoughts of composing epic poems of Greek heroes had left me. The words that often burst from my onto the paper in recent days would be considered mere nothings to the world, but they were everything to me . . . They were the pourings of my heart FOR my heart . . .

To own silence . . . How odd that one does not appreciate something, nor even realize its absence, until it is presented as an unexpected gift.

I will admit that "just Jane" seems to gain insight from hard times. I wish to ask the Almighty about this, for why do we learn more from struggles than victories?

There is no such thing as luck. God arranged for our paths to cross in order to give me His assurance and the truth, and so I thank Him, and you. Good day." ... Although she was teeming with anger, humiliation, and grief, she didn't react as she had done in the past... Instead, she crossed the room with slow deliberation, feeling the gentle sway of her skirt, hearing the subtle rustle of her petticoats, conscious of the beat of her heart.

The meanderings of the heart and mind are fickle and are often wont to be withdrawn or amended.

Without going within, I go without.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

I want that child around for the rest of its life to remind Tom what a fool he is.

In every decision we make, we are not just deciding what we want to do. We are expressing our view of the purpose of human life.

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

This toast is for all of us," he said. "Not for what we're about to become, but for what we've been, to each other, for so many years." In

Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. —Antoine de Saint Exupery

I never learned how to process my own pain.

Thomas just nodded his head in agreement, and then suggested I write a letter to myself as a child and address those painful issues.

She advised self-preservation. What a relief! How remarkable!

When I stopped seeing Thomas, he told me that I would be "recovering" for the rest of my life.

It is my experience that you must heal in order to forgive.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself. —Alexander Chase

Memories flooded back for me as I mourned increasing losses.