Quotes About Reflection

Seems to me if you talk about these things too much, the magic gets lost and pretty soon talk is all there is. Some things in life just... are.

They looked at each other and some refraction of the pain in Tom's heart must have shown in his eyes. Frank said, 'In pretty deep, huh?' 'About as deep as it gets.

You must learn to question everything. To wait before moving, to look before stepping, and to observe everything

By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again...

Ghosts flutter about my head and I am oppressed in spirit. My son, has it all been wasted..?

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

Remember, the point of doing this [personality inquiry] is not to pigeonhole yourself with a four-letter type but to get clear on important aspects of your makeup--your personal blueprint. Use this inquiry as a mirror to see yourself more clearly, Don't accept the results as truth. Use them to find clues,

How can you even think of food after what you have just witnessed?' 'It is because of what I have witnessed that I find it crossing my mind. Food is one of the principal means by which death is avoided.' - from Nicholas Meyer's "West End Horror" (dialogue tags removed for ease of reading)

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions, which seem such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows. - Aldous Huxley

Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley

Many people's tombstones should read, "Died at 30. Buried at 60."

Think of me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, some day you'll be, So now prepare to follow me. Someone,

High in the Dales one can find: Think of me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, some day you'll be, So now prepare to follow me. Someone, perhaps a night-duty policeman, had added the following: To follow you I'm not content, I do not know which way you went.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are. GEORGE ELIOT, 1819—80

Many of us like to use runs as a time to escape daily life, to think through problems, to get away from it all. In other words, when we run, we use our mental energy to deal with issues other than running. While this may be somewhat therapeutic, it won't make you a better runner.

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.

I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together. Why did I do it? And would I do it again? It was I, you see, who ended it.

What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.