Quotes about Reflection

He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it's silence held the answers to his questions.

If you understand life you need a reality check.

Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

in the blank spaces between the letters. In the moment when a note of music ends and the next one has not yet begun (Coelho/Nabil Alaihi, age unknown, Bedouin 2007:99).

Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it.

We may think at times that the only thing life offers us tomorrow, is to repeat everything we did today. But if we pay close attention, we will see that no two days are alike.

Words are life set down on paper.

I'm tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That's what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.

The only things she cared about were solitude and beauty, direct communication with God, and above all a safe distance from the world that she already knew all too well and that no longer held any interest for her.

I find myself through my readers; I understand what I wrote when I see that others understand it too.

Don't run, child! You'll never escape the two most important presences in the life of any human being: God and death. God accompanies your every step and will be annoyed because he can see that you're not paying attention to the miracle of life. Or indeed death. You just ran past a corpse and didn't even notice.

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.