Reflection Quotes

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

- Oscar Wilde

"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."

- D. H. Lawrence

"He tried to live a good life and devote that life to helping others, but he never thought the world would reward him for his efforts. Such a thought would be the ultimate in self-deluding self-aggrandizement, for why would the world care one iota about him? Now, however, he wondered if he had been wrong. Now, he thought that maybe, just maybe, if you lived a good life, the universe—this cold, cold world—might just reward you. And he did feel rewarded—rewarded beyond all the gold in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan."

- Ray Smith

"The best method to make orders, is when you falling into a dream. And then your orders are appeared in life, are they appeared in real life, or they appeared in new life dream. And why, the best method when you are falling into dream?"

- VicDoo

"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"

- Alice

"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get."

- The White Rabbit

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, says the White Queen to Alice."

- Lewis Carroll

"For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences."

- Elie Wiesel

"Memory is like throwing a stone into water. There are ripples."

- Marie Doduck

"So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!"

- Viktor Frankl

"People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren't therapy. What do you think these places were? Universities? We didn’t go there to learn. One becomes very clear about these things. What are you asking for? Forgiveness for her? Or do you just want to feel better yourself? My advice, go to the theatre, if you want catharsis, please. Go to literature. Don't go to the camps. Nothing comes out of the camps. Nothing."

- Bernhard Schlink

"It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate."

- Sarah Hughes

"It is gutting and disappointing, of course it is, but I am proud. I am done now. I am not a gymnast any longer. I have done my final routine and I can be very happy. It just wasn't my day today. It's me done in the sport. It was my last routine."

- Max Whitlock

"Lord of the Sun! That I should have a grandson herding sheep! I, who have been such a warrior as men speak of round the fire for a hundred winters!"

- Rosemary Sutcliff

"I grow old but I can still count the tally of my ten fingers. Two grandsons there are at the hearth fire; but a grandson at the hearth fire is not a grandson among the spear-warriors of the Tribe."

- Rosemary Sutcliff

"Ask the Americans, I wasn't in it much that week."

- Rory McIlroy

"A false start on 100m and you have to wait another four years. It puts a bad tee shot on the first in perspective a little bit."

- Tommy Fleetwood

"POV: you make more buzz for your package than for your performances."

- Anthony Ammirati

"I heard [tennis legend] Andy Murray couldn’t get tickets to athletics. I talked to someone last night who was from athletics, and she was like, ‘Andy Murray just hit me up for tickets, but I couldn’t help him out.’ If Andy Murray can’t get tickets, I definitely can’t get tickets."

- Andy Macdonald

"No, it was yesterday."

- Grandad

"Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to stop and think, not do."

- Bluey

"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

- Sigmund Freud

"Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?"

- Charlotte Smith

"Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful, but because they are fleeting."

- Richard Paul Evans

"Sunsets are loved because they vanish."

- Ray Bradbury

"But even the longest day wears to sunset."

- Marion Zimmer Bradley

"Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both."

- Amy Grant

"The heart looks into space to be away from earth."

- Richard Jefferies

"Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space."

- Buzz Aldrin

"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract."

- Alan Shepard