Reflection Quotes

"There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rule book that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays."

- Jodi Picoult

"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time - the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes - when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever - there comes another day, and another specifically missing part."

- John Irving

"When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him lies on the paths of men."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Remembering is an act of resurrection, each repetition a vital layer of mourning, in memory of those we are sure to meet again."

- Nancy Cobb

"To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."

- Samuel Butler

"Wherever a beautiful soul has been, there is a trail of beautiful memories."

- Ronald Reagan

"Only a moment you stayed but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts."

- Dorothy Ferguson

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

- Will Rogers

"There are nights when the wolves are silent, and only the Moon howls."

- George Carlin

"There is something haunting in the light of the Moon. It has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul and something of its inconceivable mystery."

- Joseph Conrad

"The Moon is queen of everything. She rules the oceans, rivers, rain. When I am asked whose tears these are; I always blame the Moon."

- Lucille Clifton

"Humans have been well aware of the Moon for as far back as records go, but surely before, the Moon must often have been a welcome source of illumination at night."

- David A. Rothery

"The Moon has been long linked to madness and lunacy. Even today, people sometimes superstitiously blame the Moon, especially the full Moon."

- Ken Croswell

"The moon’s a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there."

- John M. Grunsfeld

"The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso’s old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there."

- Robert Duvall

"Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children."

- George W. Bush

"On September 11, I always take the day off. I want to be in a peaceful quiet place praying. It is a day I both mourn and celebrate."

- Genelle Guzman-McMillan

"It’s the only way of life I’ve known. I was raised by a single mom."

- Padma Lakshmi

"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."

- Bram Stoker

"Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life, and brightened it so much that it scarcely seemed the same."

- Charles Dickens

"When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, 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

"When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: ‘If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.’ It made an impression on me, and since then, 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

"October is a fallen leaf, but it is also the wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hill once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above that hill once again."

- Hal Borland

"O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief."

- Robert Frost

"October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Friday is the start of the weekend, but it's also a day to reflect on the accomplishments of the week. What did you achieve? What are you proud of? Celebrate your successes."

"Caring for these patients exposed me to the most profound moments of my life."

"Every nurse has that one patient that they'll remember forever."

"It’s the nature of the world that most people have moved on, but the people directly involved with 9/11, for them, twice a day it’s 9/11."

"As October ends, the leaves remind us how beautiful it is to let go."