Reflection Quotes

"My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'"

- George Carlin

"People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don’t see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food, and spending by yourself staring at walls."

- Jason Aldean

"Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: ‘A truck!"

- Emo Philips

"Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be."

- Carrie Fisher

"When a sunrise steals your breath, say nothing. Just close your eyes and think about it."

- Unknown Author

"We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise lasts but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally."

- R. A. Salvatore

"At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear."

- Norman Maclean

"Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable."

- Carew Papritz

"If I missed the sunrise of this day and if I let the sunset slip by unnoticed, I might ask if what captured my attention this day was worth the loss of this day because I can't think of anything that's that important."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm."

- Tove Jansson

"Look inside any sister relationship and you’ll find a wealth of interesting stories."

- Colleen Sell

"How do people make it through life without a sister?"

- Sara Corpening Whiteford

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

- Virginia Woolf

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

- Mark Twain

"Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories."

- Zadie Smith

"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness."

- James Fenimore Cooper

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

- James Joyce

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

- L.P. Hartley

"History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory."

- George Santayana

"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

- Steve Jobs

"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

- Steve Jobs

"Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it … look at it and really see it … try it on … live it … exhaust it … and never give that minute back until there was nothing left of it."

- Erma Bombeck

"When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess."

- Wong Shun Leung

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"“21, if truth be told, is partly young and partly old.”"

- Unknown

"Count years not by the number of candles you blew, but the memories that you created."

"As you turn 21 today, I was reminiscing about your impressive achievements and all the beautiful moments we have shared together—happy birthday, dear one."

"One of the saddest feelings in life is to grow old and realize these two facts: you were truly brilliant and you wasted it."