#reflect

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living. ↗

— Rudolf Steiner

#each #finds #found #healthy #life

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#always #country #ecology #europe #foreign

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. ↗

— James Buchan

#better #better off #century #couple #ever

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. ↗

— Ken Burns

#contribution #country #genius #great #improvisation

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#basically #beat #bright #drawn #father

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#avoided #away #back #because #exist

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person. ↗

— Melinda Clarke

#i #i think #lot #me #person

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#does #eye #human #meet #oneself

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. ↗

— Anatole France

#irony #joy #reflection #wisdom