Quotes About Reflection

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

Have you noticed how we are presented with the same lessons, over and over and over, before a tipping point is reached? The lessons we need to learn circle round us, closing in, until finally we are ready to take them in. Take them in. Those are the words that matter, because until I had embodied the lessons I was supposed to learn, absorbed them into the warp and woof of my being, they didn't "take"; they remained a head trip and didn't lead to changes in my behavior.

Nothing can change until we acknowledge what is, as I have learned over time.

Is there world enough for me?

But there's time yet. The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long enough. Old men forget--or tend to reminisce, and reminisce falsely and sententiously as a rule. We are often very silly in our middle years but we tend to improve

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.

All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins.

Judges live with shadows behind them.

Ar vertÄ—jo mus sukurti, jie mes tokie prakeikti kvailiai?

Oh.' 'Veneering. The retired judge. Friend, no

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.

I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.

That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.

I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them." ...Lucy

Halfway across town, Father Tibor Kasparian lay on the long hard cement cot that was what this jail cell had for a bed and wished he had a book. It could be any book. He didn't really think he could read right now, but it always made him feel better, and calmer, and more sane, to hold a book. He had never been able to understand people who did not read. He had never been able to understand how they held on to themselves.

Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.

I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.

It must be strange to keep your strong mind in a body that grows older and weaker and no longer resembles your own image of yourself.

I looked up then, out the far window, and there, just within sight, the sun was going down across the river. It was dull red, no longer shining over the land, its ray brought home to roost, contained within its sphere. The sky was streaked with lavendar, a pulsing pale blue, purple and smudged pink and orange melding into one another all the way to the horizon.