Quotes about Reflection

Here are two things I found taking the long road, though: Applause is a quick fix. And love is an acquired taste.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.

For a moment sitting there above the city, i imagined life outside of narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. I wondered how it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere i go being reminded of myself.

Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror

The words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

I felt a long way from the pre-me, the pawn-Christian who was a Republican because my family was Republican, not because I had prayed and asked God to enlighten me about issues concerning the entire world rather than just America.

It's true our lives can pass small and unnoticed by the masses, and we are no less dignified for having lived quietly. In fact, I've come to believe there's something noble about doing little with your life save offering love to a person who is offering it back.

Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.

I kept asking Him to say it again, but He wouldn't. I guess it's because I heard Him the first time, you know.

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.

I'm starting to wonder if the whole point of life is to be thankful and to live in such a way others are thankful for theirs as well.