Quotes about Reflection

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.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

I want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

You put something on the page," he said. "Your life is a blank page. You write on it".

Everything's a mirror when you're a writer; the computer monitor is a mirror. Who thinks they are so important they need to write books about themselves? Who are these people who write about themselves, and how did I become one of them?

Rushed relationships are not healthy.

The thing about death is it reminds you the story we are telling has finality.