Quotes About Reflection

I've traveled That dark path to the world Which comes down from this mountain Just to see you One last time.

The cherry blossoms have faded now in hue - gazing emptily upon the long spring rains, I too know what it is to age.

Should I leave this burning house Of ceaseless thought And taste the pure rain's Single truth Falling upon my skin?

Although there is not one moment without longing, still, how strange this autumn twilight is. — Ono no Komachi, The Ink Dark Moon tr. by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani (Vintage Classics, 1990)

I am a woman in the process; Im just trying to be like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

You cannot hate other people without hating your self.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself What is my truest intention Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.

There are moments in all our lives when we realize, even as we experience them, that we are living through events we will never forget, even long afterward.

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.