Quotes about Reflection

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.

The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

Do we carry the guilt from the sins of past generations? If so, can we bear the weight of that burden?

Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.

they've all come to the same end. They are dust beneath the soil. All that is left behind lies in the people who remain. And the stories.

In those moments, I'd known that something new was being formed in me, too, created so gently that I hadn't even realized it until that evening by the shore.

Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

everyone has history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

It's a lesson I'm trying to learn from him, this living squarely in the present. I am a planner and a worrier. I torment myself by mentally replaying my past mistakes, wishing I'd been smarter, wishing I'd been stronger, wishing I'd made different choices. I live too often in the realm of what if. I also expend time and mental energy continually trying to anticipate what sort of crouching tiger might be hiding around the next corner.

Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you'll never embrace anything.

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.