Quotes About Reflection

Do not lose sight of your goal. It's not the memorization itself that is important but the constant reflection on God, His character and His ways.

They should change "Happy New Year" to "Ha Ha! You Think This Year Will Be Different but Don't Fool Yourself—You're Still a Kid.

Christmastime.

do more marveling and less whining.

Book Time When you find yourself hungry again And there's nothing good to eat-- This is book time. Pull out a book-- Sink your teeth into the think of it.

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

And just as simply as that, it was over. She was no longer a student in the local town. She was a graduate. An adult. She thought she should feel something. Older.Wiser. But she felt nothing but a strange emptiness. An inner knowledge that she was now on the edge of the nest, ready to try her own wings

There was no use grieving over what might have been

Memories are beautiful things, Boy. When the person that ya loved is gone, when the happy time is over, then ya've still got yer memories. Thank God fer this special gift of His that lets ya sorta live yer experiences again and again. S'pose there ain't no price one would settle on fer the worth of memories.

What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.

Women" he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

needed to be wanted. I couldn't go on without being wanted. And I couldn't stop thinking about that little bitch at the restaurant. I used to be that woman, I thought. I used to be the one who turned heads. Now…Christ…I was becoming invisible.

No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.

It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone.

I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing.

We leave an imprint on others with our attitude," Megan said. "Good or bad. A little bit of us rubs off on them. So when you react with an attitude to something— good or bad—it's like you're creating a …" She paused and appeared to be thinking about what to say. "Like a fossil on the heart, if that makes any sense.

You are created in God's image.

Immediately, I had the unpleasant realization that I was, in fact, living my dream life, but it was a dream life I had created after I graduated university when I didn't know any better. I grew up; my dreams did not.

Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.

A café is for "people who want to be alone but need company for it." –Noel Riley Fitch, Paris Café: The Select Crowd

That girl peering back at me from the water was me, just me. The real me. Not the other versions I tried to be to win anyone over. I took a breath and exhaled. I forgave myself for my prior judgments of not being good enough to be just who I was. The truth was I was just doing the best I could with what I knew at the time. But now I knew better.