Quotes about Reflection

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.

Anger is self-immolation.

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him.

Those thoughts come to me in the night, those thought and thoughts of becoming sick or helpless, of the nursing home, of lingering death. I gnaw again the old bones of the fear of what is to come, and grieve with a sisterly grief over Grandmam and Mrs. Feltner and the other old women who have gone before. Finally, as a gift, as a mercy, I remember to pray, 'Thy will be done,' and then again I am free and can go to sleep.

It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.