Quotes about Reflection

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

One forgets so quickly one's own youth…

All good novelists have bad memories.

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