Quotes About Reflection

How do you "re-parent" yourself? Even if you know how to parent someone else—that doesn't mean you know how to parent yourself.

in my head. Was there

Modern woman have discovered that living through another's reflection is simply not human enough.

On April 30 Lucy cheerfully reported that, after three days' illness, she was on the mend. Although she had no mirror, she could feel twenty pockmarks on her face. 'I am almost glad you do not see it.," she wrote, "I don't believe I should get one kiss and yet the doctor tells me it is very becoming.

According to Swedenborg, all human experience was only a reflection of a larger spiritual one. The human soul was what gave meaning and expression to the concrete world.

Illness was thus considered not so much a condition of the human body as a reflection of a doubting or ailing spirit.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wish we had.

Then, as we turned the final curve past the abandoned little hamlet of Ballydubh, with the village almost out of sight, he forced me to turn around and take in the full sweep of the mountains and the sea. "And there", he said, "is your An Clohan. You had best said good-bye, now.

My dear sister... His dear sister. Those words - how oddly they affected me

To S.H. & M.H.: Rot. E.H.

interruption or a keep-behind-a-closed-door

human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

Often, Bessie would reply, "Child, I don't think that's a question anyone on this earth has the true answer for. The best advice I can give you is to keep reading.

she realized that her mind was so full of beauty she had no room for words.

It can change the way you feel about things," Eleanor reminded her. "A walk by the sea is always good for the soul.

distinct. Marriage was like this, she mused, an arabesque coupling, pulling two people into the heart of intimacy and back out again to face the world alone.

what was her life about? Did she mean nothing?

How odd it was, Eleanor thought, to have grown children who've become people you don't really know.

hasn't," Kennedy reminded

Your generation does everything so fast I think you've forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea —e. e. cummings, "maggie and milly and molly and may

Does every woman at some point in her life wander through the sleeping house, looking in at her husband and children, and wonder what she's doing here, in this particular life?

The waves had already washed away her footprints. But the tide had left something: a small creamy rock shaped like a heart, polished into a dull gleam by sand and water. Emma picked it up and held it in her hand. Her mother would say: The sea has given you a sign.

It is not a lonely feeling, but just as I am always sad to close the cover on a book, I feel I have finished with this part of my life and will have to begin a new book.