Quotes About Reflection

Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life--so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.

We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.

i thought about the miseries people conceal and how they manage to survive.

There is no point in dwelling on dashed hopes or what might have been. I knew I had to clear my mind, learn from my mistakes, make peace with fate's little merry pranks, and forge ahead. The great truth of poker—and of life—can be summed up in two words: "Next hand.

She pictured the diaphanous wings of flies glittering like cut coal in the air above her friend's body.

We evoke the world we perceive.

See, the human mind is kind of like... a pi

I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu.

A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written -- as long as I keep my senses, at least.

Technology hasn't got all the answers, and sometimes - just sometimes - what is needed is spirituality, time and some good mountain air.

Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from memory unexpectedly.

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

Buddhist mantras are deliberately deep yet superficially meaningless - to take your mind off things

Midler Memories – Barbra Streisand Imagine – John

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Lynx, why are you staring at me like that?" she asked. He straightened and shrugged. "I was just thinking how close I came to losing you. Now that I have you, Callie, I can't imagine my life without you." -Calinda & Lynx

You can't leave problems behind when they're inside your head." -Lynx

We must think upon these things that threaten our love, which cause us to fear its loss. Fear is not good. We must conquer it and our mistrust. A