Quotes About Reflection

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

I love slow music.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

Time, thus unbroken by things to look forward to or back on, stretched endlessly.

Thoughts walk in uninvited

I was always asking myself why. Why am I feeling this? Thinking that if I knew the cause I could find the cure. But of course there was no reasonable why, at least not in the present. I was awash in an accumulation of past feelings and future dreads, all similar, at least as far as my brain was concerned, and so, lumped together as one. But nobody can handle a lifetime of experience in one moment. That's why depression crushes you.

I could live alone forever if I just had a view of the sea.

Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.

Men's healing is in women's interest, though for women that healing will mean accepting on some level not only that men are—here is the dreaded word—victims of the patriarchy, too, but (and this will be the hardest part to swallow) that women have been codeterminers in the system, at times as invested and active as men themselves in making and keeping men in their role.

It is difficult for the average person to achieve an historical perspective in which progress shall have been reduced to its proper dimensions.

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

Could I be having a midlife crisis? Ahead of schedule. God, I'd just turned thirty-four. How batty would I be by fourty?

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

He felt like a satrap amid all those acres of sheets. But this morning it was different. He was simply lying there and adding up the future like a sum; and whichever way he added it, it came out wrong.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness

The way a book is read- which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning. As

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.