If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or...

As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.

The girl in the mirror wasn’t who I wanted to be and her life wasn’t the one I wanted to have.

Love is like a cloud in a lake. It’s reflective and makes it feel like you are flying, when you are really either swimming or trying not to drown.

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it’s as though they didn’t happen.

What if everyone’s life was judged solely by the worst thing they’d ever done?

Hope is when we have a beautiful vision of something and a positive emotion to go along with it. When our world comes crashing down, when we are trapped in a deep, dark, despairing hopelessness,...

What wild undisturbed corners do you leave within you or within your partner, your children, your parents, your closest friends? What is left respectfully and quietly for passive cultivation, for privacy, for the imagination, for...

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.

I pretend to be stupid to reveal your cockiness,I pretend to be helpless to reveal your selfishness,I pretend to be annoying to reveal your patience,I pretend to be vulnerable to reveal your kindliness, Every action...

Shall I run back into the desert … and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the...

Everything needs love… and everything you do or don’t do is a reflection of how you love you!

Many CastlesOn My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the oasis Where the heart And the silence Intertwine.

Growth and empowerment requires reflection and facing the frightening, ugly, hard and unbearable reality.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.

Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love.

That’s the way life goes sometimes.

piensa que el hecho de que no existan luchas, odio ni deseos significa que tampoco existen las cosas opuestas. Es decir, la alegría, la paz de espíritu, el amor. Porque es de la desesperanza, del...

I think before I act—and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?

We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It’s based on...

Who am I? What am I doing here? Who are these others? This trilogy of spiritual conundrums is as practical as it is philosophical. Mindful inquiry devoted to these three questions is as spiritual as...

I have built a city from the books I’ve read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city...

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.

Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

In the shade of words sits life itself.

Our value is mirrored back to us through success only when we share the treasure we already are.

fate” caused you to make great decisions that lead you to where you are now.

MOTHER TIME: Every New Year is the same. Every day, every second is too for that matter. But when we deliver them in secret, when another year just begins as a matter of fact, it’s...

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? — not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering,...

Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself

Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved mores still have difficulty destroying, since everyday one sees in our theaters someone...

Beyond the noise-in between the space of ego + my sacred self;I’ve learned to trust the voice of my soul.

Real love, real friends, real body parts…

Rarely if ever, moments come that are so defining in our lives. The years are glutted with benign matters which impact us more deeply than we could have ever imagined in our youth.

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror – we all have it – that shadow self – that dark heart…

Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.

Look yourself in the eyes in a mirror each day. You can ignore the small voice still inside you, but your reflection will always have something to say.

Nico was devastatingly alone. He’d lost his big sister Bianca. He’d pushed away all other demigods who’d tried to get close to him. His experiences at Camp Half-Blood, in the Labyrinth and in Tartarus had...

If you do not control your circumstance, you will be controlled by your circumstance. The choice is yours.

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

Sometimes people don’t get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain itself. Our brains can be our worst enemy, our cruelest opponent.

Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. “I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do,” she would write seven decades later.

I want to find myself as a person, and I’ve enlisted the help of my clone to aid me in this. It’s like finding Waldo, except I’m only half wearing the red and white sweater,...

Our actions are express image of our thoughts

Life isn’t memorable enough to remember everything. It’s not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.