Quotes about Reflection

Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

I am grateful for the Christmases of my life

It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that's why it's been such a long time since I've been really happy.

There is not only more to each soul's journey than we imagine, usually there is more than we can imagine.

The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.

For the third time since I began, my walk has been delayed. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions---but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey. No matter how much I, or the rest of humanity wishes otherwise, life is not lived in smooth, downhill expressways, but in the obscure, perilous trails and rocky back roads of life where we stumble and feel our way through the fog of the unknown.

We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

In the end, it is not by knowledge that we make our journeys but by hope and faith: hope that our walk will be worthy of our steps and faith that we are going somewhere. And only when we come to the end of our journeys do we truly understand that every step of the way we were walking on water.

We all have a road to walk. The foolish walk blindly. The intelligent navigate it. The good repair it as they go. CHARLES JAMES'S DIARY

Some people use the Bible as medicine. Others use it as poison." - Charles James