Reflection Quotes

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn."

- Elizabeth Lawrence

"Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered."

- Phoebe Snow

"I want to die a natural death at the age of 102 - like the city of Detroit."

- Deadpool

"It’s funny to think about the things in your life that can make you cry just knowing that they existed, can then become the same thing that make you cry knowing that they’re now gone."

- Ted

""The snag about marriage is, it isn’t worth the divorce.""

- Suzanne Finnamore

""The good thing about getting divorced young—if there is a good thing—is that it makes you realize there’s no schedule in life.""

- Olivia Wilde

"What matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"The tans have faded, but the memories last forever."

- Paige Drummond

"The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day."

- Robert Adams

"Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream."

- Kahlil Gibran

"I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder."

- Terri Guillemets

"Thinking back to when it’s warm outside. Oh, why couldn’t Christmas be in July?"

- Haley Mary Artzab

"In June we picked the clover, and sea-shells in July: There was no silence at the door, no word from the sky."

- Cecil Day-Lewis

"But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter."

- Joanna Franklin Bell

"July, that lovely hell, all velvet dresses and drapes stuffed into a hot little hole."

- Laura Kasischke

"I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn."

- Jimmy Buffett

"The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable."

- Lewis Black

"Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me."

- Mark E. Smith

"Kwanzaa is a special time to remember the ancestors, the bridge builders, and the leaders."

- Dorothy Winbush Riley

"We have religious holidays and we have secular holidays. I see Kwanzaa as an opportunity for African Americans to reaffirm ourselves if we choose to, a chance to rebuild and renew our focus. I see Kwanzaa as a holiday of the spirit."

- Jessica Harris

"For families across the country, today marks the beginning of a joyous time to reflect on the rich African-American culture and to remember the principles of unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith—principles that reflect our most cherished values as Americans."

- Barack Obama

"We need about seven days to figure out who we are and where we’re at and love each other. It’s a time for reflection to help us try to figure out how we’re gonna enjoy the next year."

- Chuck D.

"My ma wanted to go and have a wee look at where all the Scottish kings had been buried. So we traipsed over Mull, in the pishing rain, with the parents desperately trying to find things to do as is the case with a holiday in Scotland, then on to Iona."

- Douglas Henshall

"It's funny to think about the things in your life that can make you cry just knowing that they existed, can then become the same thing that make you cry knowing that they're now gone."

"Footprints in the sand remind us that every journey leaves a mark."

"Every seashell has a story."

"A walk on the beach is never a waste of time."

"A day at the beach is never lost time. When the warm grains of sand touch our hearts, we know we’re in the right place."

"The finish line isn’t just the end of a race, it’s the moment you realize how far you’ve come."

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."