Reflection Quotes

"You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time."

- Charlie Brown

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."

- Bill Vaughan

"Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since."

- Dave Beard

"No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam."

- Charles Lamb

"I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball and I knew I had to leave it."

- Willie Mays

"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"

- Dr. Seuss

"Last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice."

- T.S. Eliot

"The journey, not the arrival, matters."

- T.S. Eliot

"Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field."

- Juliana Hatfield

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

- Winston Churchill

"In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands."

- T.D. Jakes

"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"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."

- Deck the Halls

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"

- Rumi

"Memories are created by what we do, not by what we think."

- Byron Pulsifer

"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen."

- Edward de Bono

"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us."

- Oscar Wilde

"Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."

- Bob Dylan

"The town was paper, but the memories were not."

- John Green

"Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory."

- Leonard Nimoy

"How do you want to be remembered?"

- Michael Hyatt

"Our memory is like a shop in the window of which there is now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen."

- Marcel Proust

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

- Cesare Pavese

"Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our hearts warm when we are lonely."

- Becky Aligada

"Memories are the diary we all carry with us."

- Oscar Wilde

"The past beats inside me like a second heart."

- John Banville

"When you are gone, the only truly important thing you will leave behind are the memories you’ve created. How do you want to be remembered?"

- Michael Hyatt

"Let us not burthen our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone."

- William Shakespeare

"Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are the only real treasure any human can hope to hold always."

- Gary Jennings

"Many incidents of those early years are fixed in my memory, isolated, but clear and distinct, making the sense of that silent, aimless, dayless life all the more intense."

- Helen Keller