{"quotes":[{"text":"Writing is a blurred mirror. Sometimes we work harder to see how we are reflected, but often we avert our gaze from the shadowy image.","author":"Kristen Twardowski","tags":["awareness","mirror","self-reflection","writing","writing-life","writing"],"id":1830,"author_id":"Kristen+Twardowski"},{"text":"All throughout our lives, we selectively draw on selected shavings of life events and reflect upon them through consciousness, creating an arranged catalogue of senses, faculties, and mental activities that compose our personal life story.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["consciousness","memoir","self-realization","self-realization","self-reflection","story-of-my-life","writers-on-writing","writers","writing"],"id":13352,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["confusion","growth","self-reflection","spirituality"],"id":14071,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["anxiety","art","beach","born-ready","cape-cod","coming-of-age","constellations","depression","destiny","fate","friends","girls","growing","growing-up","healing","hope","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","learning","life","love","lovers","ocean","pray","prayer","red-thread","red-thread-of-destiny","red-thread-of-fate","self-acceptance","self-love","self-reflection","soul","soul-mates","stars","teenagers","teens","time","universe","wish"],"id":17824,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["anxiety","art","beach","born-ready","cape-cod","coming-of-age","constellations","depression","destiny","fate","friends","girls","growing","growing-up","healing","hope","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","learning","life","love","lovers","ocean","pray","prayer","red-thread","red-thread-of-destiny","red-thread-of-fate","self-acceptance","self-love","self-reflection","soul","soul-mates","stars","teenagers","teens","time","universe","wish"],"id":18859,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["anxiety","art","beach","born-ready","cape-cod","coming-of-age","constellations","depression","destiny","fate","friends","girls","growing","growing-up","healing","heart-break","hope","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","learning","life","love","lovers","ocean","pray","prayer","red-thread","red-thread-of-destiny","red-thread-of-fate","self-acceptance","self-love","self-reflection","soul","soul-mates","stars","teenagers","teens","time","universe","wish"],"id":21798,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"},{"text":"Self-reflection enables every person to alter the trajectory of their personal storyline by reviewing a series of episodic occurrences and making value judgments regarding the past. How we perceive our history colors the present, our deeds of today script the future outcome of individual persons, and the outcome of many people making conscious decisions using their cognitive processes including the ability to remember and share memories influences the direction of human development and the progress of society.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["consciousness","decisions","humanity","memoir","memories","self-reflection"],"id":26982,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"...A mirror can trick you day by day into thinking you remain looking and existing in one way forever. But a photograph presents you with the truth: it freezes you eternally, existing as a reminder that you can never, ever go back to any one moment again- that you are always changing, hour by hour, cell by cell, in tiny fragments that build skyscrapers overnight.","author":"Kels Adeline Sapp","tags":["age","aging","mirror","mortality","photographs","reflections","self-reflection","time"],"id":29675,"author_id":"Kels+Adeline+Sapp"},{"text":"You can't see yourself. You know what you look like because of mirrors and photographs, but out there in the world, as you move among your fellow human beings, whether strangers or friends or the most intimate beloveds, your own face is invisible to you. You can see other parts of yourself, arms and legs, hands and feet, shoulders and torso, but only from the front, nothing of the back except the backs of your legs if you twist them into the right position, but not your face, never your face, and in the end - at least as far as others are concerned - your face is who you are, the essential fact of your identity. Passports do not contain pictures of hands and feet. Even you, who have lived inside your body for sixty-four years now, would probably be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to speak of your ear, or your elbow, or one of your eyes in close-up. All so familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.","author":"Paul Auster","tags":["identity","self-reflection"],"id":38819,"author_id":"Paul+Auster"},{"text":"Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.","author":"Cherie Carter-Scott","tags":["empathy","self-reflection"],"id":43349,"author_id":"Cherie+Carter-Scott"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":142,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}