Quotes About Reflection

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

I don't know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

The difference between Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and Enron's Kenneth Lay is far easier to recognize with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.

I went back and read all the Berkshire Hathaway annual reports. My life changed course as a result.

The human brain is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's time to turn off the sound.

Memories take time and energy to create.

It was strange, she thought, pedaling steadily, that it should require a holocaust to make her own life worth living.

Now at this hour, when the cirrus clouds stretched like crimson ribbons high across the southwest sky, in such a hush that not even a playful eddy dared stir moss or palm fronds, the day died in calm and in beauty.

none of this talk. A week or so later, thinking about Mark's words, Randy had decided to go into

It's all too easy to hit the "send" button before we've really had the chance to think about the effect on the audience.

Trust is the glue in any relationship and is clearly the non-negotiable element of interdependent relationships. We will not be interdependent with those we don't trust. Trust is somewhat like a thermometer, reflecting the current state of a relationship.

Now, contemplating her battered body, he reflected that the violence it revealed was also something many women met daily.

But when you write something down, you have to think it all the way through. Sometimes, I'm not even sure how I feel about something until I write a story about it. I figure it out while I'm writing the story.

You mustn't take any notice of what I'm saying when I'm talking to myself. It's only a bad habit we fall into when we're solitary and we always say the worst to ourselves.

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

The loneliness of writing drives me nuts sometimes. Notice when it's going bad, it's loneliness and when it's going good it's solitude.

Don't be impatient with yourself. Just be in awe.

I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is one of them.

What a pity. How the stars and seas and rivers in their fragile lace of fog go on without us morning after morning, year after year. And we disappear.

Both writing and praying are acts of deep vulnerability.

Surprise is a major factor in distinguishing an answer to prayer from a projection of my own mental processes. When I can't believe I made up the answer myself, I have to look around to see where it came from.

It occurred to me that when I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait.

Follow, poet, follow right to the bottom of the night. I have no choice but to pursue the deepest truth my life has given me.