Quotes About Reflection

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration, and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

Naked Lunch, after the novel by William Burroughs—"a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

I have found that when I am writing something emotional, I must write it the first time directly with hand on paper. Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

Anything you do fully is an alone journey.

I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.

Writing is the act of discovery.

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

Connection with self never felt so good!

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

Down the way a silk design This face is mine Tis I, Katrina! Katrina, I.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

I keep wishing, reflexively, for a glimpse of the future, so I'll know what to do. But I don't kid myself. I have to feel my way forward blindly. I try not to be afraid. Even if you know what's coming, you're never prepared for how it feels.

I didn't want to die. I just found death soothing to think about.

He's more of a Death person than a Dinner Roll person...

Selbst wenn ich wollte, könnte ich mich nicht mehr in die alte Schneekugel zurückquetschen, in der mich jeder haben will. Das Glas ist längst zerbrochen.

Entonces me preocupé: ¿Qué pasa si me estaba volviendo como Ginger? ¿Qué pasa si no podía ser feliz a menos que estuviera con Robbie, como Ginger no podía ser feliz sin Papi?

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

The way you got sideswiped was by going back. —JOAN DIDION

When I think of this now, I see how the past holds us captive, its beautiful ruin etched on the mind's eye