Reflection Quotes

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

- Ronald Reagan

"Having a birthday is like reaching a higher peak on a mountain. Pause to admire the view; reflect on how far you have come."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?"

- Joy Page

"We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place."

- Frank McCourt

"Animals will attack if provoked, to protect their family or just to put food on the table, yet man still hasn’t learned these simple basics of life. Somehow I don’t think we are the intelligent species after all."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"When it hurts, observe. Life is trying to teach you something."

- Buddha

"To know ourselves better, we must slow down enough to feel our feelings and to hear our deeper thoughts."

- David D. Corbett

"We take the time to allow ourselves the privilege of thinking."

- Narcotics Anonymous

"I know, despite all my best efforts and deepest desires, that I can’t guarantee a happy, healthy, and successful path for my children; still, once in a while, I feel the tide touching my toes."

- D’Anne Burwell

"The way to measure your progress is backward against where you started, not against your ideal."

- Dan Sullivan

"When you’re young, there’s so much that you can’t take in. It’s pouring over you like a waterfall. When you’re older, it’s less intense, but you’re able to reach out and drink it. I love being older."

- Sigourney Weaver

"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."

- Leone Ross

"My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others."

- George Sheehan

"You can’t think of your next marathon until you’ve forgotten your last one."

- Frank Shorter

"Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and asks the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer."

- Javik

"Life is cruel. Of this I have no doubt. One can only hope that one leaves behind a lasting legacy. But so often, the legacies we leave behind... are not the ones we intended."

- Queen Myrrah

"Good men mean well. We just don't always end up doing well."

- Isaac Clarke

"The best solution to a problem is usually the easiest one. And I'll be honest - killing you is hard. You know what my days used to be like? I just tested. Nobody murdered me, or put me in a potato, or fed me to birds. I had a pretty good life. And then you showed up. You dangerous, mute lunatic. So you know what? You win. Just go. [chuckles] It's been fun. Don't come back."

- GLaDOS

"I used to be an adventurer like you, until I took an arrow to the knee."

- Town Guard

"There was a HOLE here. It's gone now."

- In-game text

"Hard to see big picture behind pile of corpses."

- Mordin Solus

"My past is not a memory. It’s a force at my back. It pushes and steers. I may not always like where it leads me, but like any story, the past needs resolution. What’s past is prologue."

- Metroid: The Other M

"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

- Montesquieu

"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."

- Kin Hubbard

"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."

- Lawrence Durrell

"Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries."

- Cher

"The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean."

- Beyoncé

"Remember"

"Think about how far you’ve come. Take a minute to celebrate that."