Reflection Quotes

"It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer."

- Kobe Bryant

"Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."

- John Muir

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."

- Oscar Wilde

"Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Music is the soundtrack of your life."

- Dick Clark

"The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with – nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life."

- Rob Sheffield

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."

- Charles Darwin

"Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning, there is mystery, in the end, there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile."

- Nicholas Sparks

"When I was on a two-week vacation I noticed something. The vacation lasted a good long time then suddenly it was over. Life is like that also."

- Fr. Cedric Pisegna CP

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

- Confucius

"Winning and losing isn't everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome."

- Alex Morgan

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

- Stephen Chbosky

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

- Ambrose Bierce

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

- Mark Twain

"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

"Good morning! Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come."

- Fennel Hudson

"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."

- Walter Scott

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

- Hal Borland

"He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it—the ending and beginning of things."

- Jacqueline Woodson

"As the season ends, the lessons learned remain."

"Reflecting on the season's highs and lows."

"Looking back on a season well-played."

"Closing the chapter on a memorable season."

"End of the season, but the journey never truly ends."

"The season's end is a time to reflect and regroup."

"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."

"December: A month of lights, snow, coziness, and feasts; time to make amends and tie up loose ends; finish what you started and make your wishes come true."

"Every ornament tells a story, every light a memory."