Reflection Quotes

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

"The past is the past. We cannot indulge ourselves in memories and destroy the present."

- Murata Ken

"Whatever you lose, you’ll find it again. But what you throw away you’ll never get back."

- Himura Kenshin

"How can you move forward if you keep regretting the past?"

- Edward Elric

"Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don’t desire, but they’re inevitable, we have to face them. It’s what being human is all about."

- Jet Black

"Forgetting is like a wound. The wound may heal, but it has already left a scar."

- Monkey D. Luffy

"Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you."

- Heidi Johnson

"Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection."

- Winston Churchill

"Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us."

- David Cameron

"Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance – each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon."

- Deborah Whipp

"Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more."

- Dr. Seuss

"Christmas is not just a time for festivity & merry making. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things."

- J.C. Penny

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."

- Shirley Temple

"Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon."

- Deborah Whipp

"Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance—a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved."

- Augusta E. Randel

"But I did know that nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Had any adult with the power to fulfill my desires taken me seriously and asked me what I wanted, they would have known that I did not want to have anything to own, or to possess any object. I wanted, rather, to feel something on Christmas Day."

- Toni Morrison

"Nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Had any adult, with the power to fulfill my desires, taken me seriously and asked me what I wanted, they would have known that I did not want to have anything to own or to possess any object. I wanted, rather, to feel something on Christmas Day."

- Toni Morrison

"Christmas may be a day of feasting or of prayer, but always, it will be a day of remembrance — a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved."

- Augusta E. Randel

"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

"Bad decisions make good stories."

- Ellis Vidler

"It could be that your purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others."

- Ashleigh Brilliant

"I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken."

- H. Kyle Seale

"Happy Tuesday! It is a good day to reflect on the week so far and spread happiness."

"The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek ways to make life better for those around us."

"That’s what Christmas memories are made from, they’re not planned, they’re not scheduled, nobody puts them in their blackberry, they just happen."

"Count not the candles…see the lights they give. Count not the years, but the life you live. Wishing you a wonderful time ahead. Happy birthday."