Quotes About Reflection

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.

I just want to not be me.

Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will being to reflect your true identity.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

A decision to stop dating someone is hard to make, but it should be made as early in the process as possible. In other words, if a new relationship is likely to evolve in a negative direction, the earlier you can end it and move on the better. There are three reasons for this:

Emails we can read, say no to 'send a receipt', mark as unread, categorise, label and put in a folder whilst drinking tea and thinking about other things. It's hard work making the right noises and facial expressions in response to an in-person reminder.

I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they're small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.

After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?

I've never tried to be what I'm not. I am what I am: raggedy, over-the-top, heartfelt, emotional, reflective, passionate, angry and sad at times.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Knowledge is high in the head, but the salmon of wisdom swims deep

The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.

Marcel Proust wrote that "what we call our future is the shadow that our past projects in front of us.

The formal operational thinker has the ability to consider many different solutions to a problem before acting. This greatly increases efficiency, because the individual can avoid potentially unsuccessful attempts at solving a problem. The formal operational person considers past experiences, present demands, and future consequences in attempting to maximize the success of his or her adaptation to the world.

but sometimes you can go along, years even, and not feel like you're growing up at all, and then there's times when you age a ton, like, in a couple 'a seconds, you know?

WOMAN Really? Handsome guy like you and that's all you're good for … to look at? MAN Pretty much. WOMAN Good to know. (Opens a pudding.) You want one? MAN Nah, I shouldn't … WOMAN Why? MAN Excellent question. Okay.

CARTER Come on, be honest! The thing they represent that's so scary is what we could be, how vulnerable we all are. I mean, any of us. Some wrong gene splice, a bad backflip off the trampoline … too many cartons of Oreos! We're all just one step away from being what frightens us. What we despise. So … we despise it when we see it in anybody else.

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

Thoreau, "At death, our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us, and are found out, or depart farther from us, and are forgotten.

All these wounds that I can't get unwound