Quotes About Reflection

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Books are a finer world within our world.

This view of a living nature where man is nothing is both odd and sad. Here, in a fertile land, in an eternal greenness, you search in vain for traces of man; you feel you are carried into a different world from the one you were born into.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

thinking about all the weird things

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

What did I know about the fifty-five (give or take) countries of Africa? I carried within me one deep personal thread of one small part of it, and it had changed and colored everything

Until you make the unconscious conscious," Carl Jung said, "it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I woke up on May 15 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

Accept I can't change the past. I can only concentrate on the now and hope for the future.

Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession

It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy.

Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.

To keep a journal is to learn how to play. Deeply. Even when a page is recording hard, impossible things, if judgment is suspended, there's always a surprise or shift. Connections made over time suddenly link, opening and transforming.

The secret of keeping a journal is seeing it as a draft, a stepping-stone, a process.

Sitting for even five minutes with a journal offers a rare cease-fire in the battle of daily life.

Ten million blank journals are sold annually in stationery stores alone.

It's estimated that sixty-five thousand thoughts float through our mind a day.

A diary or journal isn't necessarily something that should be done daily so much as it is a clue to how to see the daily world around oneself differently.